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(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
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To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
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To burst out laughing.
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(slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
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A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
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Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
(logic) The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man'' into ''white'' and ''not white .
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(biology, taxonomy) The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
(astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
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(biology) Successive division and subdivision; successive bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin.
(biology) A fork (bifurcation) in a stem or vein.
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Split is a related term of dichotomy.
As a proper noun split
is a port city in croatia.As a noun dichotomy is
a separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.split
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Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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Derived terms
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(en noun)- He’s got a nasty split .
- In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
Verb
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
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- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
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(wikipedia dichotomy)Noun
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- 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.
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- The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy.
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- Despite some contradictions found in the essay, its major emphasis is laid on the politics-administration dichotomy' theory. It is largely devoted to the argument concerning the separability of politics and administration. The politics-administration ' dichotomy initiated by Wilson was later elaborated by Frank J. Goodnow in his work, “Politics and Administration” (1900).
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- All of this previous analysis was based on two related ideas: the classical dichotomy' and monetary neutrality. Recall that the classical ' dichotomy is the separation of variables into real variables (those that measure quantities or relative prices) and nominal variables (those measured in terms of money).
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- 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.
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- One can ask if for any algebra the considered problem is always in P or NP-complete (P or coNP-complete)? For example, the problem of the satisfiability of a system of polynomial equations over a group G is in P if G is abelian and NP-complete otherwise ([7, 13]).
- One of the most widely known subclasses of NP which exhibits such a dichotomy', is the class of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) on the set {0,1}, see [16]. Recently Bulatov proved the ' dichotomy for CSP on a three-element set [3].
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- 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.
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- In one forked leaf there is a distinct vein dichotomy', and the leaf boundary commences 1.5 mm above the ' dichotomy .
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- In most of the creeping species with dorsiventral stems (e.g., S. kraussiana'', ''S. laevigata'') roots arise at or close to the point of dichotomy'''; in species like ''S. rupestris'' and ''S. wallichii'' they arise at the point of '''dichotomy as well as other positions and in ''S. selaginoides'' and ''S. spinulosa they arise from knot like swellings present at the basal portion of the stem.