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单词 trichotomy
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Definition of trichotomy in English:

trichotomy

nounPlural trichotomies trʌɪˈkɒtəmitrɪˈkɒtəmitrīˈkädəmē
  • A division into three categories.

    the pragmatics–semantics–syntax trichotomy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus, the relationship appears to be close to a trichotomy and may prove very difficult to resolve with confidence.
    • With the absence of informative characters, these three individuals appear in a trichotomy.
    • In Throckmorton's scheme, D. mimica and Dorsilopha form a trichotomy together with Hirtodrosophila.
    • Accordingly, we have treated these deeper relationships as unresolved, as shown by the trichotomy below these groups.
    • Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms.
    • Instead, there is a trichotomy of the three lineages (Smithornis / Corvus - Vidua/remaining avian taxa).
    • The argument comes down to considering a trichotomy,
    • Early Paleozoic land plants, land animals, and paleosols have been considered in terms of the breeder-competitor-tolerator trichotomy in nonquantitative terms.
    • The interordinal phylogeny of the hemipteroid assemblage is still an unresolved trichotomy.
    • Rather they find a trichotomy of ducks, geese, and a Cereopsis-Cnemiornis clade.
    • The trichotomy also prevents development of any vicariance hypotheses among the three provinces.
    • Apparently, the coelacanth, lungfish, and tetrapod lineages diverged within such a short time interval that at this level of analysis, their relationships appear to be an irresolvable trichotomy.
    • However, due to the ambiguity in the phylogenetic analyses, this divergence is shown as an unresolved trichotomy.
    • Finally, recent molecular work suggested an unresolved trichotomy between sooglossids, ranoids, and all other neobatrachians.
    • Both clades, together with H. bastetanum, form a trichotomy that it is separate from H. suaveolens.
    • Perhaps the most accepted and applied taxonomy of motivation is the trichotomy developed and operationalized by McClelland.
    • Phylogenetic relationships inferred from hsp 82 depicted the rotifer class Seisonidea as the sister taxon of a monophyletic trichotomy that included Acanthocephala, Bdelloidea, and Monogononta.
    • This trichotomy has been reinterpreted in various ways, but it still serves.
    • On the other hand, Kessing showed that the two species made an unresolved trichotomy with S. purpuratus.
    • This level of divergence was comparable to that between A. aeneus from Costa Rica and the widespread A. mexicanus lineage, producing a trichotomy between these three lineages.

Derivatives

  • trichotomous

  • adjective
    • Polytomous logistic regression was used in the analyses involving the severity of crime because the severity variable is an ordered, trichotomous measure.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Branching details are difficult to resolve in full, but trichotomous branching is evident in several areas, and four orders of laterals are evident within the upper verticils of this zone.
      • To make comparable these two methods of assessment, a trichotomous classification was used.
      • Bivariate analyses of the trichotomous accuracy variable and patient attributes showed no important differences with respect to patients' age, sex, race, religion, or marital status.
      • The dependent variable for this study was a trichotomous survey item focusing on level of parent involvement: ‘how active are you in your child's health education?’
  • trichotomic

  • adjective -kəˈtɒmɪk

Origin

17th century: from Greek trikha 'threefold' from treis 'three', on the pattern of dichotomy.

Rhymes

dichotomy, lobotomy, tracheotomy
 
 

Definition of trichotomy in US English:

trichotomy

nountrīˈkädəmē
  • A division into three categories.

    the pragmatics–semantics–syntax trichotomy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, due to the ambiguity in the phylogenetic analyses, this divergence is shown as an unresolved trichotomy.
    • Instead, there is a trichotomy of the three lineages (Smithornis / Corvus - Vidua/remaining avian taxa).
    • The argument comes down to considering a trichotomy,
    • Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms.
    • This level of divergence was comparable to that between A. aeneus from Costa Rica and the widespread A. mexicanus lineage, producing a trichotomy between these three lineages.
    • Both clades, together with H. bastetanum, form a trichotomy that it is separate from H. suaveolens.
    • Phylogenetic relationships inferred from hsp 82 depicted the rotifer class Seisonidea as the sister taxon of a monophyletic trichotomy that included Acanthocephala, Bdelloidea, and Monogononta.
    • On the other hand, Kessing showed that the two species made an unresolved trichotomy with S. purpuratus.
    • In Throckmorton's scheme, D. mimica and Dorsilopha form a trichotomy together with Hirtodrosophila.
    • The interordinal phylogeny of the hemipteroid assemblage is still an unresolved trichotomy.
    • The trichotomy also prevents development of any vicariance hypotheses among the three provinces.
    • Thus, the relationship appears to be close to a trichotomy and may prove very difficult to resolve with confidence.
    • With the absence of informative characters, these three individuals appear in a trichotomy.
    • Apparently, the coelacanth, lungfish, and tetrapod lineages diverged within such a short time interval that at this level of analysis, their relationships appear to be an irresolvable trichotomy.
    • Rather they find a trichotomy of ducks, geese, and a Cereopsis-Cnemiornis clade.
    • Early Paleozoic land plants, land animals, and paleosols have been considered in terms of the breeder-competitor-tolerator trichotomy in nonquantitative terms.
    • Finally, recent molecular work suggested an unresolved trichotomy between sooglossids, ranoids, and all other neobatrachians.
    • Accordingly, we have treated these deeper relationships as unresolved, as shown by the trichotomy below these groups.
    • This trichotomy has been reinterpreted in various ways, but it still serves.
    • Perhaps the most accepted and applied taxonomy of motivation is the trichotomy developed and operationalized by McClelland.

Origin

17th century: from Greek trikha ‘threefold’ from treis ‘three’, on the pattern of dichotomy.

 
 
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