01 n. A cutting in two; a division.
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A cutting in two; a division.“A general breach or dichotomy with their church.” — Sir T. Browne.
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Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
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That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.(Astron.)
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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.(Biol.)
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The place where a stem or vein is forked.
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Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.(Logic)