Associations to the word «Typology»

Wiktionary

TYPOLOGY, noun. The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics
TYPOLOGY, noun. (archaeology) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
TYPOLOGY, noun. (linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages)

Dictionary definition

TYPOLOGY, noun. Classification according to general type.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery