Vocabulary : Dichotomy to Dichromic

Dichotomy : A cutting in two; a division. ;; Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. ;; That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. ;; 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. ;; The place where a stem or vein is forked. ;; 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.
Dichroic : Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope : Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism : 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.
Dichroite : Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

Dichroitic : Dichroic.
Dichromate : A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Dichromatic : Having or exhibiting two colors. ;; Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
Dichromatism : The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic : Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.

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