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Definition of Trichotomy
1. Noun. Being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses.
Definition of Trichotomy
1. n. Division into three parts.
Definition of Trichotomy
1. Noun. Division or separation into three groups or pieces. ¹
2. Noun. (algebra) the following property of an order relation (e.g., "less than"): for any two elements (of a given algebraic structure) there are exactly three possibilities: either the first element is less than the second one, the second element is less than the first one, or the two elements are equal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trichotomy
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Literary usage of Trichotomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bible doctrine of man by John Laidlaw (1879)
"THE trichotomy IN ITS HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS. ... Some profess to find a trichotomy
indicated by Pythagoras. If we may believe Diogenes Laertius (viii. ..."
2. A System of Biblical Psychology by Franz Delitzsch (1885)
"IT is of no avail to say that either Dichotomy or trichotomy exclusively is the
... There are such various kinds of views of dichotomy and trichotomy, that, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Starting from the Platonic anthropological trichotomy, and from certain psychological
hypotheses of Plato and Plotinus, he attributed to the imagination a ..."
4. Elements of Deductive Logic by Noah Knowles Davis (1894)
"... having respect to the matter, it often occurs that we have those that are more
than dichotomous ; we may have a trichotomy or a polytomy. ..."
5. The Tripartite Nature of Man, Spirit, Soul, and Body: Applied to Illustrate by John Bickford Heard (1875)
"To put these two thoughts together, and to suggest an analogy from the trichotomy
of man to the three persons of the Blessed Trinity, is such an obvious ..."
6. The Religious Teaching of the Old Testament by Albert Cornelius Knudson (1918)
"... the question as to whether the Old Testament does not teach a threefold instead
of a twofold division of human nature, trichotomy instead of dichotomy. ..."
7. Christian Theology by Milton Valentine (1906)
"But that abiding, effectual Power of God, which conditions all life, acts immanently
in generation.1 DICHOTOMY OR trichotomy. This question concerns the ..."
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