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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats