Paradigm

['pærədaɪm] or ['pærə'daɪm]

Definition

(noun.) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; 'he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm'.

(noun.) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word.

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Definition

(n.) An example; a model; a pattern.

(n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

(n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

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Definition

n. an example: model: (gram.) an example of the inflection of a word.—adjs. Paradigmat′ic -al consisting of or resembling paradigms.—n. Paradigmat′ic one who narrates the lives of religious persons by way of examples.—adv. Paradigmat′ically.

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