English Dictionary

dichotomy

IPA（発音記号）

/daɪˈkɒtəmi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division. / Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.

日本語の意味

2つに分けること、または2つに区分する行為 / 相反するまたは対立する原則や概念に基づいた二分割、二元論とも言える分類

The dichotomy between theory and practice complicates efforts to implement new policies.

理論と実践の二分法が新しい政策を実施する取り組みを複雑にしている。

意味（1）

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.

The dichotomy between the private and the public is central to almost two centuries of feminist writing and political struggle; it is, ultimately, what the feminist movement is all about. Although some feminists treat the dichotomy as a universal, trans-historical and trans-cultural feature of human existence, feminist criticism is primarily directed at the separation and opposition between the public and private spheres in liberal theory and practice.

意味（2）

Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.

意味（3）

(logic) The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.

But in the fallacy of false dichotomy, not only do the two alternatives fail to be jointly exhaustive, but they are not even likely. As a result, the disjunctive premise is false, or at least probably false.

意味（4）

(biology, taxonomy) The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.

意味（5）

(astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.

The Ides of Januarius indeed, the preceding month, must have fallen on March 1 at midnight, two days before the first dichotomy of the mean new moon of that month, March 3 at midnight.

意味（6）

(botany) Division and subdivision; bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; often successive.

In one forked leaf there is a distinct vein dichotomy, and the leaf boundary commences 1.5 mm above the dichotomy.

dichotomies （ plural ）