Significat

• 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. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  5. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  6. Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  7. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  8. A blood group.
  9. A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
  10. An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  11. A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.)
  15. A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

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