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<hw>Di*chot"o*mist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dichotomizes.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

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<hw>Di*chot"o*mize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dichotomized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dichotomizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Dichotomous</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The apostolical benediction <b>dichotomizes</b> all good things into grace and peace. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>To exhibit as a half disk. See <er>Dichotomy</er>, <p><b>3.</b></def> "[The moon] was <i>dichotomized</i>."

<i>Whewell.</i>

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<hw>Di*chot"o*mize</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.</def>

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<hw>Di*chot"o*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dichotomos</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/ in two, asunder + <?/ to cut.]</ety> <def>Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; <as>as, a <ex>dichotomous</ex> stem</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Di*chot"o*mous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Dichotomy</h1> <Xpage=408>

<hw>Di*chot"o*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>dichotomie</ets>. See <er>Dichotomous</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A cutting in two; a division.</def>

<blockquote>A general breach or <b>dichotomy</b> with their church. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The place where a stem or vein is forked.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term <i>man</i> into <i>white</i> and <i>not white</i>.</def>

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<hw>Di*chro"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Dichroism</er>.]</ety> <def>Having the property of dichroism; <as>as, a <ex>dichroic</ex> crystal</as>.</def>

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<hw>Di*chro"i*scope</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Dichroscope</er>.</def>

<h1>Dichroism</h1> <Xpage=408>

<hw>Di"chro*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ two-colored; <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ color.]</ety> <fld>(Opt.)</fld> <def>The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.</def>

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