Definition of Dichotomization

1. Noun. The act of dividing into two sharply different categories.

Exact synonyms: Dichotomisation
Generic synonyms: Division
Derivative terms: Dichotomise, Dichotomize

Definition of Dichotomization

1. Noun. The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dichotomization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotomization

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dichorionic diamniotic placenta
dichotic
dichotic listening tests
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dichotomies
dichotomisation
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dichotomised
dichotomises
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dichotomist
dichotomists
dichotomization (current term)
dichotomizations
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dichotomous key
dichotomous keys
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dichotomousness
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dichroic
dichroiscope
dichroiscopes

Literary usage of Dichotomization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Meta-Analysis of Drug Abuse Prevention Programs edited by William J. Bukoski (1998)
"Because the degree of split for dichotomization was given in the research reports, it was possible to correct the correlations individually for the ..."

2. Stochastic Inequalities by Moshe Shaked, Yung Liang Tong (1992)
"The interpretative difficulty is that the scorings are in some sense arbitrary, as would be any dichotomization. More specifically, let L\ < . ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1915)
"If such modes of speech as "has being," "is an entity," etc., are to convey anything worth putting into words we must have a dichotomization of objects of ..."

4. Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian by Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin (2001)
"This phenomenon of dichotomization ofthe “direct search market” and the ... This dichotomization can be viewed as the self-selection by traders into ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"It is here that we come across the great division, or dichotomization, of all societies into the militant and the industrial; into those which are framed on ..."

6. Urban Change and Poverty by Michael G. H. McGeary, Laurence E. Lynn (1988)
"... market theory suggests that a dichotomization of the American labor market has occurred over time, forging two separate labor markets—a "primary" market ..."

7. Symbolic Logic by John Venn (1881)
"... but on merely logical grounds such an expression as ' continued dichotomization', or ' subdivision', would seem to be more appropriate. ..."

8. Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries by Vahé Baladouni, Margaret Makepeace (1998)
"-60 * * * Concluding Comments As the historiographie survey in this introduction suggests, the dichotomization of pre-modem commercial life into ..."

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