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dichotomy: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

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doublethink collapse: believing two contradictory ideas at the same time

Janus collapse: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

scission collapse: the act of dividing by cutting or splitting

halving collapse

dualism collapse: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

resection collapse: surgical removal of part of a structure or organ

pairing collapse: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

branching collapse: the act of branching out or dividing into branches; resembling the branches of a tree

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

severance collapse: the act of severing

duplicity collapse: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

amputation collapse: a surgical removal of all or part of a limb; a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs

splitting collapse

slashing collapse: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

laceration collapse: the act of lacerating; a torn ragged wound

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

ripping collapse

ambivalence collapse: mixed feelings or emotions

excision collapse

cleavage collapse: the act of cleaving or splitting; the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts); (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum; the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules; the state of being split or cleft; "there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members"

ramification collapse: an arrangement of branching parts

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

polarity collapse: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

surgery collapse: a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"; the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

mutilation collapse: an injury that deprives you of a limb or other important body part

fission collapse: a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy; reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts

subdivision collapse: the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided; an area composed of subdivided lots

conjugation collapse: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms; the complete set of inflected forms of a verb; the inflection of verbs

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