(taxonomy) A species which has been designated as typical of a genus, and is chosen as the species according to which the genus is named.

plural of type collection

Alternative spelling of filetype

(biology) The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature

(programming) Not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type.

A company that designs and/or distributes typefaces.

(astronomy, geology) Describing an eruption or volcano similar to that of Pele on Io (the moon of Jupiter).

(geology) The location, usually where the first specimen was discovered, considered most representative of a mineral, formation etc.

(programming, software compilation) the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors

plural of type locality