Type

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Type may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

• Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc.
• Data type, collection of values used for computations.
• File type
• TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file.
• Type (Unix), a command in POSIX shells that gives information about commands.
• Type safety, the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors.
• Type system, defines a programming language's response to data types.

Mathematics

• Type (model theory)
• Type theory, basis for the study of type systems
• Arity or type, the number of operands a function takes
• Type, any proposition or set in the intuitionistic type theory
• Type, of an entire function
  • Exponential type

Biology

• Type (biology), which fixes a scientific name to a taxon
• Dog type, categorization by use or function of domestic dogs

Lettering

• Type is a design concept for lettering used in typography which helped bring about modern textual printing in the publishing industry
• Type can refer to a font style, e.g., "italic type"
• Movable type, in letterpress printing
• Sort (typesetting), in letterpress printing
• Typesetting, the composition of text by means of arranging types
• Typeface, the overall design of lettering used in a collection of related fonts
• Type design, the art and process of designing typefaces
• Type foundry, a company that designs or distributes typefaces
• Typewriter, a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by a printer's movable type

Sociology

• Ideal type
• Normal type
• Typification

Other uses

• Type (acting), a way of characterizing an actor by the sort of role they are well-suited for or fit into easily, or by their performance style
• Type, also antitype, in Typology, in Christian theology and biblical exegesis
• "Type" (song), a 1990 song by the band Living Colour
• Type (designation), a model numbering system used for vehicles or military equipment
• A layer in the nomenclature of aircraft, as in type certificate and type rating
• Architectural type, classification of architecture by functional types (houses, institutions), morphological types or historical types Architectural style subcategories
• U.S. Navy type commands, senior commands for the specific "type" of weapon system (i.e., naval aviation, submarine warfare, surface warships) employed
• Type of Constans, a 648 edict issued by Byzantine Emperor Constans II
• Type-token distinction, in logic, linguistics, and computer programming

See also

• Typology (disambiguation), the study of types
• Categorization
• Kind (disambiguation)

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