TRICHOTOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trichotomy mean? 

• TRICHOTOMY (noun)
  The noun TRICHOTOMY has 1 sense:

1. being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses

  Familiarity information: TRICHOTOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICHOTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("trichotomy" is a kind of...):

categorisation; categorization; classification (a group of people or things arranged by class or category)