dichotomy vs polarity

dichotomy

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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. 

polarity

noun
  • A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ 

  • The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles. 

  • The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ 

  • The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ 

  • The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ 

  • Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ 

  • Either of the two extremes of such attributes. 

  • Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ 

  • A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ 

  • An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ 

  • The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ 

  • The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase. 

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