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Type may refer to:

Science and technology

=Computing

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* Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc.
* Data type, collection of values used for computations.
* File type
* TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file.
* Type (programming)
* Type (Unix), a command in POSIX shells that gives information about commands.
* Type safety, the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors.
* Type system, defines a programming language's response to data types.

=Mathematics

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* Type (model theory)
* Type theory, basis for the study of type systems
* Arity or type, the number of operands a function takes
* Type, any proposition or set in the intuitionistic type theory
* Type, of an entire function#Order and type|entire function
** Exponential type

=Lettering

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See also Lettering, Character, Symbols

* Type is a design concept for lettering used in typography which helped bring about modern textual printing in the publishing industry
* Type can refer to a font style, e.g., "italic type"
* Movable type, in letterpress printing
* Sort (typesetting), in letterpress printing
* wp>Typesetting, the composition of text by means of arranging types
* Typeface, the overall design of lettering used in a collection of related fonts
* wp>Type design, the art and process of designing typefaces
* wp>Type foundry, a company that designs or distributes typefaces
* Typewriter, a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by a printer's movable type

Other uses

* wp>Type (metaphysics), in philosophy
* wp>Type-token distinction, in logic, linguistics, and computer programming