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Word: Trichotomy
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
17th century: from Greek trikha ‘threefold’ from treis ‘three’, on the pattern of dichotomy
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
trʌɪˈkɒtəmi
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
trɪˈkɒtəmi
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a division into three categories
Short Definition:division into three categories
Examples:- the pragmatics–semantics–syntax trichotomy
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