[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dichotomy \dichot"omy\, n. gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. f. dichotomie.
   see dichotomous.
   1. a cutting in two; a division.
      1913 webster

            a general breach or dichotomy with their church.
                                                  --sir t.
                                                  browne.
      1913 webster

   2. division or distribution of genera into two species;
      division into two subordinate parts.
      1913 webster

   3. astron. that phase of the moon in which it appears
      bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the
      quadratures.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. the place where a stem or vein is forked.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
dichotomous 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dichotomy
     n : being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or
         subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western
         culture" syn: duality
see also:
duality 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

56 moby thesaurus words for "dichotomy":
   janus, abscission, ambiguity, ambivalence, amputation, bifidity,
   biformity, bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, branching,
   butchering, by two, chopping, cleavage, conjugation, cutting,
   cutting in two, dimidiation, division, doubleness, doublethink,
   doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity,
   enucleation, equivocality, excision, fission, forking, halving,
   in half, irony, laceration, mutilation, pairing, polarity,
   ramification, rending, resection, ripping, scission, section,
   severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, subdivision, surgery,
   tearing, twinning, two-facedness, twoness

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