Third-person singular simple present indicative form of type

Assigning or classification by type. / The act of typing on a keyboard.

present participle of type

plural of typing

(taxonomy) A collection from which the original concept of a taxonomic group was described.

(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean, but in some languages also list, hash table or first class function.

(computer science) A data type that can be constructed in a programming language out of that language's primitive types and other composite types; exemplified by array, structure, and class.

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

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

(astronomy, of a star) Having similar characteristics to those of the Sun.