Dichotomize
(Di*chot"o*mize), v. i. To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become
dichotomous.
Dichotomous
(Di*chot"o*mous) a. [L. dichotomos, Gr. in two, asunder + diate`mnein to cut.] Regularly
dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. — Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.
Dichotomy
(Di*chot"o*my) n. [Gr. fr. : cf. F. dichotomie. See Dichotomous.]
1. A cutting in two; a division.
A general breach or dichotomy with their church.
Sir T. Browne. 2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the
quadratures.
4. (Biol.) 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.
5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
6. (Logic) 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.
Dichroic
(Di*chro"ic) a. [See Dichroism.] Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope
(Di*chro"i*scope) n. Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism
(Di"chro*ism) n. [Gr. two- colored; di- = di`s- twice + color.] (Opt.) 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.
Dichroite
(Di"chro*ite) n. [See Dichroism.] (Min.) Iolite; — so called from its presenting two different
colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Dichroitic
(Di`chro*it"ic) a. Dichroic.
Dichromate
(Di*chro"mate) n. (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid
radical to one of the base; — called also bichromate.
Dichromatic
(Di`chro*mat"ic) a. [Pref. di- + chromatic: cf. Gr. .]
1. Having or exhibiting two colors.
2. (Zoöl.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in
certain birds and insects.
Dichromatism
(Di*chro"ma*tism) n. The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic
(Di*chro"mic) a. [Gr. two- colored; di- = di`s- twice + color.] Furnishing or giving two colors; —
said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of
three. Sir J. Herschel.
Dichroous
(Di"chro*ous) a. Dichroic.
