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typology (s) (noun), typologies (pl)
1. A doctrine, or theory that things in the Christian dispensation are symbolized or prefigured by things in the Old Testament: The Greek words which help people understand typology come under a verbal root that means "to beat, to strike, or to smite".

Usually the New Testament uses typology as a method of interpreting the Old Testament without explicitly saying so.

Typology, a comparison stressing one point of similarity, helps people to see the New Testament person, event, or institution as the fulfillment of that which was only hinted at in the Old Testament.

—Compiled from a presentation by Berkeley J. Mickelson;
Professor of New Testament Emeritus; Bethel Theological Seminary;
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; in the Holman Bible Dictionary;
General Editor, Trent Butler, Ph.D.; Holman Bible Publishers;
Nashville, Tennessee; 1991; pages 1377-1378.

2. The study of, or research based on classifications; such as, archeological remains or bacterial strains which are based on the comparative studies of categories.
3. The study of languages, or aspects of languages, regarding their structures rather than their historical relations.
4. The study, and especially, the analysis or division of humanity in terms of social distinctions or comparisons.
This entry is located in the following units: -ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist (page 77) typo-, typ-, -type (page 7)
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typology (s) (noun), typologies (pl)
The classification of things into groups based on their similarity of characteristics or attributes: In the botany class, students were taught to recognize plants according to their typology of variegated leaf patterns and to organize them based on this information.
This entry is located in the following units: Archeology, Archaeology (page 7) English Words in Action, Group T (page 7)