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Definition of Typical

1. Adjective. Exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category. "A typical case of arteritis"

2. Adjective. Of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing. "That is typical of you!"

3. Adjective. Conforming to a type. "Typical teenage behavior"

Definition of Typical

1. a. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

Definition of Typical

1. Adjective. Capturing the overall sense of a thing ¹

2. Adjective. characteristically representing something by form or type ¹

3. Adjective. normal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Typical

1. having the nature of a representative specimen [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Typical

typhoon fifths typhoonlike typhoons typhos typhose typhosepsis typhotoxin typhotoxins typhous typhus

typhus fever typhus mitior typhus vaccine typhuses typic typical (current term) typical achromatopsia typical jerboa typical pseudocholinesterase typicalities

typicality typicall typically typicalness typicalnesses typicities typicity typier typiest typification

Literary usage of Typical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1898)
"typical anal condylomata. The patient was a woman aged twenty-one years. ... typical anal condylomata in a male patient. of recent origin, but I have never ..."

2. Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College by Harvard College Observatory (1921)
"typical stars, a Canis Minoris and p Puppis. The hydrogen lines are 2.о as ... typical stars, ß Virginis and a Fornacis. The spectrum resembles that of the ..."

3. Patent Essentials for the Executive, Engineer, Lawyer and Inventor: A by John Franklin Robb, George Prescott Tucker, Louis William Maxson, Edwin Clark Reynolds, Loren Alonzo Sadler, Edward Collins (1922)
"... and Business—Contract Between Employer and Employees as a Group. (See Interference Forms, Chapter XIV.) (Also see typical Cases, Chapters XV, XVI, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Catskill Aqueduct — typical cut-and-cover aqueduct construction, showing excavated trench, steel forms, partial and area of 241 square feet typical ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... distinguish several forms including (1) typical acute gouty arthritic attacks, (2) an acute or subacute polyarticular form of gout, (3) renal gout, ..."

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