(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.

(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.

(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

(computing, programming) A system in which type checking is performed during compilation and not at run time, opposed to dynamic typing.

A metal alloy used in making types for traditional typefounding and mechanical typesetting. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper.

plural of type-in

(programming) A style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its inheritance from a particular class or implementation of a specific interface.