English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of dichotomy

dichotomy

/ द्विधाकरण; द्विभक्‍तीकरण; दो भागों में विभाजन; (वन और प्राणि) डाइकोगैमी; पृथक्-पक्‍वता;

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English Dictionary:

1. Dichotomy

[n.]

- A cutting in two; a division.
- Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
- That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
- 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.
- The place where a stem or vein is forked.
- 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.