A metal alloy used in making types for traditional typefounding and mechanical typesetting. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper.

(programming) A style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its inheritance from a particular class or implementation of a specific interface.

(computing, programming) A system in which type checking is performed during compilation and not at run time, opposed to dynamic typing.

(computing, programming) A system in which type checking is performed at run time and not at compilation, opposed to static typing.

(computing, programming) A system that places any of various kinds of restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.

(geology) The location, usually where the first specimen was discovered, considered most representative of a mineral, formation etc.

(programming, software compilation) the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors

plural of type locality

(software) a type in a nominative type system that cannot be instantiated.

A basic, primitive, or original type; prototype.