Definition of Polychotomy

1. Noun. polytomy ¹

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Definition of Polychotomy

1. [n -MIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polychotomy

polychlorinated naphthalenes
polychlorobiphenyl
polychlorobiphenyls
polychloroprene
polychloroprenes
polychloroterphenyl compounds
polychlorotrifluoroethylene
polychlorotrifluoroethylenes
polychondritis
polychord
polychordal
polychords
polychoron
polychotomies
polychotomous
polychotomy (current term)
polychrest
polychrests
polychroism
polychroite
polychromaemia
polychromasia
polychromate
polychromates
polychromatic
polychromatic acid
polychromatic cell
polychromatocyte
polychromatophil cell
polychromatophile

Literary usage of Polychotomy

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

1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"... not been distinctly recognized as a fundamental principle in natural classification. polychotomy is probably always provisional and not wholly natural. ..."

2. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"polychotomy is probably always provisional and not wholly natural. The superior taxonomic value of the brain and heart was insisted upon by the writer in ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1888)
"polychotomy is probably always provisional and not wholly natural. The superior taxonomic value of the brain and heart was insisted upon by the writer in ..."

4. Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society by Lester Frank Ward (1903)
"They indicate that there sometimes occurs what may be called polychotomy, in which the main trunk divides up somewhat equally, producing a number of large ..."

5. A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences.: (Including the Vocabulary of by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1881)
"(POLYTOMOUS,) POLYTOMY, polychotomy (Gr.), many divisions; classification into many parts, more parts than two; especially opposed to Dichotomy. ..."

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