typology
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8.0
- noun
- /taɪˈpɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
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tipología
- In the following discussion, I will offer a basic typology of characters in literature.
- typologies of homelessness
- normative typology
- group typology
So this is a a very strange kind of natural typology of the elements, isn't it?
- So this is a a very strange kind of natural typology of the elements, isn't it?
Examples
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Astin's 2001 analysis also employed typology work to better understand student experiences and outcomes.
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Unfortunately, no generally accepted comprehensive typology of political violence exists.
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I was just wondering if maybe you could come up to the site tonight and help me finish the typology for the artifacts.
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As suggested earlier, typologies should be assessed according to their utility.
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Doing so results in a substantively different typology from the one they affirmed.
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The first is the development of a detailed typology (or taxonomy) of known types of barriers.
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Kuhn and Culhane extracted this typology from the research literature and provided initial empirical support for it.
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The typology of the sword that Ewart Oakeshott devised included a classification for all historical blades.
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By incorporating all of this temporal information, we discern a typology substantively different from the prevailing one.
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The researcher developed a comprehensive typology to classify various species of plants.
Synonyms
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3.7
The process of putting things into groups by shared features
How Systematic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Typology breaks into type meaning 'kind' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', the same ending you see in biology. So a typology is a way of studying and putting things into groups or categories by their kinds.