What's the difference between dichotomy and partition?

Dichotomy


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have always been of the view that it is a false dichotomy, and one that is pretty much built-in by our education system unfortunately," he said this weekend.
  • (2) In the present article, we characterize this dichotomy with examples from the literature, and we apply an adaptive priming procedure for testing discrete versus continuous activation models.
  • (3) The reason for this apparent dichotomy between opportunity and reality seems to be related to the industry's lack of emphasis on genetic improvement.
  • (4) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
  • (5) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
  • (6) Linear discriminant analysis of the subtests disregarding the verbal-performance dichotomy yielded considerable increase in hit-rate in prediction of laterality of lesion.
  • (7) Moreover, the response profile of isolated 38+ thymocytes was analogous to peripheral 38+ T cells, suggesting that the dichotomy of function detected with our mAb also occurs before acquisition of 110 antigen.
  • (8) In the past, the notion of the "education-service dichotomy" concerned the divergent priorities of academia and the clinical care delivery setting.
  • (9) These results demonstrate that cytochalasin D has a biphasic effect on luteal progesterone release in the rat and provides an explanation for the dichotomy of results thus far reported.
  • (10) Soyinka's dichotomy of dreams and nightmares continues to resonate in Africa and beyond
  • (11) This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience.
  • (12) Dendrites stratified predominantly in the inner sublamina of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) with a varying number of branches from the remaining dendrites contained within the outer IPL, both strata presumably corresponding to the electrophysiologically determined on-off dichotomy.
  • (13) This paper addresses the dichotomy between the low and high Li concentrations regarding the two bacterial parameters studied, as well as their possibly related cariogenic and cariostatic clinical relevance.
  • (14) Although radiotherapy cures a very high percentage of early stage patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD), there is a controversial dichotomy in the dose recommendations believed necessary to achieve greater than 95% local control: Whereas one school of thought is to administer 40-44 Gy, other reports claim equal results with about 36 Gy.
  • (15) Most of the traits studied are observed using ordinal scales with several grades, and many are tested using more than one dichotomy of their scale.
  • (16) Resuspended, virus-infected endothelial cells bound significantly less well to tissue-culture wells coated with both low (p less than 0.001) and high (p less than 0.05) concentrations of fibronectin as compared with uninfected endothelial cells, a dichotomy further worsened in the presence of granulocyte-released elastase.
  • (17) In addition, distribution of lead and cadmium varied within the individual producer (Fucus vesiculosus) in such a way that the holdfast exhibited the highest concentration followed by the apcial tip and the branches of the first dichotomy was the lowest.
  • (18) Prior studies have been based on several problematic assumptions: (1) specific behavioral abnormalities are associated with NOFTT, (2) NOFTT is a homogeneous population, and (3) a strict dichotomy between organic and environmental influences on physical growth is a valid distinction.
  • (19) In particular, we show how the PDP framework provides an alternative to the usual dichotomy between automatic and controlled processing and can explain the relative nature of automaticity as well as the fact that seemingly automatic processes can be influenced by attention.
  • (20) There is no evidence that these subjects can be divided into a simple dichotomy of those with physical or mental illnesses, or that pain measures can discriminate between them.

Partition


Definition:

  • (v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
  • (v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.
  • (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
  • (v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
  • (v.) A score.
  • (v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.
  • (v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
  • (2) Isoprenylated proteins were enriched in the detergent phase upon partition with the non-ionic detergent Triton X-114.
  • (3) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
  • (4) Folch extraction and partition followed by silicic acid column chromatography revealed the antigens to be glycolipids.
  • (5) The volume changes of the respiratory system were partitioned using an inductance plethysmograph.
  • (6) Equilibrium-partitioning measurements indicate that the relative affinities of different probes for PC-rich vesicles, in competition with HODMA or DOTAP vesicles, increase with increasing hydrogen-bonding capacity of the probe headgroup in the order PC less than N,N-dimethyl PE less than N-methyl PE less than PE approximately phosphatidyl-2-amino-1-propanol.
  • (7) The partition ratio of 2.0 obtained for the reaction with L 658758 approaches that of an optimal inhibitor.
  • (8) In addition, our data suggest that part of the difference may reside in differential partitioning of lipid into lysosomes.
  • (9) Changing the partition of the load on the femoral surface and the permeability at the tibial surface changes the time-dependent response, but has little effect on the strain distributions at times of the order of 5 s considered in this study.
  • (10) This symmetry, with respect to the sign of the charge, indicates that discreteness-of-charge effects are not significant in determining the potential-sensitive phase partitioning of these probes in model membranes.
  • (11) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
  • (12) Two-phase systems consisting of water, dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) have been used for partition of membranes obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
  • (13) P61 is solubilized by Triton X-114 treatment of membranes and partitions into the detergent phase upon warming.
  • (14) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
  • (15) The history of the relationship of biological activity to partition coefficient and related properties is briefly reviewed.
  • (16) Triton X-114 solubilized material from both the virulent and attenuated strains, which partitioned into the hydrophobic, detergent phase, contained LLS and major proteins of 41 and 44 kDa, which were also immunoprecipitable from intact organisms.
  • (17) This may lead to large errors in pathological tissue because the partition coefficient changes significantly in brain tumors.
  • (18) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
  • (19) Our present results thus provide parameters for the separation of cells by partition in addition to or instead of membrane charge depending on the polymer and salt composition and concentration selected.
  • (20) A methanol-aqueous KCl extraction is used, followed by cleanup with clarifying agents and partition into chloroform.