typical

• typicall (obsolete)

From Late Latin typicalis, from Latin typicus (“typical”), from Ancient Greek τυπικός (tupikós, “of or pertaining to a type, conformable, typical”), from τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), equivalent to typic +‎ -al and type +‎ -ical.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪp.ɪk.əl/

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• Hyphenation: typ‧i‧cal

typical (comparative more typical, superlative most typical)

1. Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
2. Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
3. Normal, average; to be expected.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

4. (taxonomy) Of a lower taxon, containing the type of the higher taxon.
   • 2013 September 9, Raymond G. Gagné, John C. Moser, “The North American gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of hackberries (Cannabaceae: Celtis spp.)”, in Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, volume 49:

     Celticecis species are definitely known only from the typical subgenus of Celtis, distributed through much of the Holarctic Region.

• See also Thesaurus:common

• atypical

• typal
• type
• typic

• gestalt
• gist
• resemblance
• emblematic
• prefigurative
• distinctive

typical (plural typicals)

1. Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

   Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

   Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

• “typical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “typical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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