Dichotomy vs. Discrepancy — What's the Difference?

A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.Such a partition is also frequently called a bipartition.

An illogical or surprising lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts

A division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different

Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference.

Repeated branching into two equal parts.

An instance of divergence or disagreement.

A division into two contrasting parts or categories

An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.

(Astronomy) The phase of the moon, Mercury, or Venus when half of the disk is illuminated.

The state or quality of being discrepant.

(Botany) Branching characterized by successive forking into two approximately equal divisions.

A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions;

A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.

An event that departs from expectations

Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.

(logic) The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.

The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.

(astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.

(botany) Division and subdivision; bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; often successive.

A cutting in two; a division.

Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

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.

The place where a stem or vein is forked.

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.

Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses;