1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]
2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears
bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
1. A cutting in two; a division.
2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
3. That phase of the moon in which it appears
bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
4. 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.
5. The place where a stem or vein is
forked.
6. 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.
