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Definition of Dichotomise
1. Verb. Divide into two opposing groups or kinds.
Generic synonyms: Assort, Class, Classify, Separate, Sort, Sort Out
Derivative terms: Dichotomisation, Dichotomization, Dichotomy
Definition of Dichotomise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of dichotomize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotomise
Literary usage of Dichotomise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"But just as the axis may dichotomise in primitive forms, so also is dichotomy
seen to be widely existent in the leaves of early vascular types, and examples ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... creeping or climbing stems they arise singly and dichotomise in rectangularly
intersecting planes in the soil. It has already been mentioned that in the ..."
3. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1877)
"The rays of the lower lobe of the caudal dichotomise as usual towards their
extremities ; as we pass to the upper lobe the division takes place sooner, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"The various stages of this growth are represented in the plates, in addition to
which a section is described and figured of a branch about to dichotomise, ..."
5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"... dichotomise, one division of the nerve-fibre passing to the closing muscle,
the other to the opening muscle; so that one division of the fibre exerts ..."
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