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, type + -al.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪpɨkəl/

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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.

• See also Thesaurus:common

• atypical

• typicality
• typically
• typicalness

• 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• typical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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