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ideal type

noun

  1. a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ideal type1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

The ideal types of microphones for a given situation directly capture your intended audio source, such as your voice or a musical instrument, without picking up any other nearby sound.

And why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?

Hers was the ideal type of Japanese feature, so rarely seen amongst the common people, and considered so unlovely by Europeans.

In the Old Testament the ideal type is the "just man," who conformed to ritual standards at all points.

He was the ideal type of the feudal lord for whom no interest prevails against his own.

About 1200 this ideal type gave place to the later "realistic" crucifix.

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