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.ɪ.kəl/

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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.

   Hyponym: emblematic

3. Normal, average; to be expected.
   • 1989 February 6 [1989 February 4], “Spring Festival”, in Daily Report: China, number 023, sourced from Beijing CHINA DAILY p 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page 30, column 1:

     Also perpetual is the practice of extending greetings and best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year.
     The most typical traditional greeting is gong xi fa cai (for prosperity). And it certainly has been the most appropriate one since China in late 1978 denounced the political upheaval of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) and launched its large-scale reform and development programmes.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “typical”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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