The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. divide or branching into two pieces.
WordNet
adj. divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications
Usage examples of "dichotomous".
Normal for everyone is different and probably dichotomous from any other.
There is, with some confidence in the statement, no significant difference or dichotomous conflict between what you have learned and what may be advanced through this dialogue.
Along with them came a murmuring academic program and text discussing how these locations demonstrated dichotomous usage.
Here's in the regions of year-long snow and ice, where, in winter, even the waters of the Barents Sea ran a milky white, to find this ebony mass towering fifteen hundred vertical feet up into the grey overcast evoked the same feeling of total disbelief, the same numbing impact, although here magnified a hundredfold, as does the first glimpse of the black cliff of the north face of the Eiger rearing up its appalling grandeur among the snows of the Bernese Oberland: this benumbment of the senses stemmed from a dichotomous struggle to accept the evidence before the eyes for while reason said that it had to be so that primeval part of the mind that existed long before man knew what reason was just flatly refused to accept it.