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What does type mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word type? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  4. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
    1. (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
    2. (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
  5. (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.
  6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  7. (medicine) A blood group.
  8. (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  9. (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.
  10. (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.
  11. (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.
  12. (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 corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
Verb
  1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  3. To determine the blood type of.
  4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
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