dichotomize
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dichotomize
- /dʌɪˈkɒtəmʌɪz/ UK
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From Ancient Greek διχότομος (dikhótomos) + -ize.
verb dichotomizes · dichotomizing · dichotomized
- To separate into two parts, to classify into two classes, or to categorize into two categories. The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace.
- To be divided into two.
- To exhibit as a half disk. If the moon was a perfectly smooth sphere […] the place when she was dichotomized, […] would depend upon the sun's distance from the earth.