Definition of Dichotomy

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Dichotomy

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.

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Dichotomy Quotations

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Jock Sturges

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.
Adam Savage

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
Ann Macbeth

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter Stewart

Dichotomy Translations

dichotomy in German is auf dem Wert 2 basierend, Dichotomie

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