dicotomía
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See also: dicotomia
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek διχοτομία (dikhotomía, “a cutting in half”), from διχῆ (dikhê, “in two, asunder”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).
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Noun[edit]
dicotomía f (plural dicotomías)
- dichotomy (a separation or division in two)
- (logic, philosophy) dichotomy (a division of a class into two disjoint subclasses)
- (botany) dichotomy (bifurcation)
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Further reading[edit]
- “dicotomía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014