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trichotomy

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

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  • I would add another category to your dichotomy (trichotomy?) and that would be 'the street'. Online Content Bundling, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • On the other hand, Kessing showed that the two species made an unresolved trichotomy with S. purpuratus.
  • Thus, the relationship appears to be close to a trichotomy and may prove very difficult to resolve with confidence.
  • In Throckmorton's scheme, D. mimica and Dorsilopha form a trichotomy together with Hirtodrosophila.
  • Finally, recent molecular work suggested an unresolved trichotomy between sooglossids, ranoids, and all other neobatrachians.
  • Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms.
  • Apparently, the coelacanth, lungfish, and tetrapod lineages diverged within such a short time interval that at this level of analysis, their relationships appear to be an irresolvable trichotomy.
  • Instead, there is a trichotomy of the three lineages (Smithornis / Corvus - Vidua/remaining avian taxa).
  • Early Paleozoic land plants, land animals, and paleosols have been considered in terms of the breeder-competitor-tolerator trichotomy in nonquantitative terms.
  • This trichotomy has been reinterpreted in various ways, but it still serves.
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