Classification according to general type

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ language typology EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Competition entrants are asked to look at how to transform the tower block typology into a new type of community. ▪ None the less, it would be unwise to conclude that all areas ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typology \Ty*pol"o*gy\, n. [Type + -logy.] (Theol.) A discourse or treatise on types. (Theol.) The doctrine of types.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. classification according to general type

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Typology (in urban planning and architecture) is the taxonomic classification of (usually physical) characteristics commonly found in buildings and urban places, according to their association with different categories, such as intensity of development ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics 2 (context archaeology English) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics 3 (context linguistics English) classification ...