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paradigm |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Paradigm \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr Gr ?, fr ? to show by the side of to set up as an example; ? beside + ? to show See {Para-}, and {Diction}.] 1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and patterns of all things.'' --Cudworth. 2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection. 3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: paradigm n 1: systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word 2: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: {prototype}, {epitome}, {image}] 3: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
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