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 system

(computing) A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.

To type with a keyboard or typewriter without having to look at it, knowing where the keys are.

A manufacturer of metal type for printing.

A classification of individuals based on physical characteristics or body constitution or on an asserted relationship between physical characteristics and a tendency to either suffer from a disease or have other characteristics.

(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.

(typography) The art of designing typefaces. / (typography) A particular style of typeface that has been designed.

(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.