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Terms vs Typical - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and typical

is that terms is while typical is anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

As an adjective typical is

capturing the overall sense of a thing.

terms

English

Noun

(head)
  • Statistics

    * ----

    typical

    English

    Alternative forms

    * typicall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capturing the overall sense of a thing.
  • Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.
  • Normal, average; to be expected.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * atypical

    Derived terms

    * typicality * typically * typicalness

    See also

    * gestalt * gist * resemblance * emblematic * prefigurative * distinctive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.
  • Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.
    Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.