Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Dichotomous (a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.

(1) - Dichotomy (n.) 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.
(2) - Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
(3) - Dichotomy (n.) 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.
(4) - Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
(5) - Dichotomy (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
(6) - Dichotomy (n.) A cutting in two; a division.

(1) - Dichroic (a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

(1) - Dichroism (n.) 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.