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Definition of Polychotomy
1. [n -MIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polychotomy
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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