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Definition of Dichotomize
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 Dichotomize
1. v. t. To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
2. v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
Definition of Dichotomize
1. Verb. To separate (or be separated) into parts or classifications ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dichotomize
1. [v -MIZED, -MIZING, -MIZES]
Medical Definition of Dichotomize
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1. To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. "The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace." (Bp. Hall)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotomize
Literary usage of Dichotomize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared by Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot (1850)
"The other rays dichotomize in the same manner as those of the caudal. The anal,
longer than broad, is placed opposite and somewhat behind the dorsal. ..."
2. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa by Iowa Geological Survey, James Hall, Josiah Dwight Whitney (1858)
"SURFACE marked by regular rounded plications, eighteen or twenty of which are on
each side of the mesial fold and sinus : some of these dichotomize near the ..."
3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1895)
"The tortuous and varicose fibrils which originate from them dichotomize under
the epithelium or its deep layers and terminate in the epithelium. ..."
4. Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants Found in the Carboniferous Strata by Edward William Binney (1875)
"Certainly I have never seen it dichotomize into smaller roots, although other
observers may have been more fortunate. Professor Williamson, in his ..."
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