type

Definitions

• A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
• An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
• An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
• (printing) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
• Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
• (medicine) A blood group.
• (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
• (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
• (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
• (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
• (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
• (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this –Howard corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)