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/pˈɛrədˌaɪm/ Listen

noun

Paradigm n.

An example; a model; a pattern. (R.) "The paradigms and patterns of all things."

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

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

(Science) A theory providing a unifying explanation for a set of phenomena in some field, which serves to suggest methods to test the theory and develop a fuller understanding of the topic, and which is considered useful until it is be replaced by a newer theory providing more accurate explanations or explanations for a wider range of phenomena.

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Etymology of 'Paradigm'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Paradigm" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mystery! Just such a pretty babble I find in the Spanish Chapel, which to take in any other spirit would work a madness in the brain. You remember the North wall, apotheosis of Saint Thomas and what-not, for all the world like a paradigm of the irregular verb "Aquinizo." What are we to suppose Lippo Memmi (or whoever else it was) to have been about when he hung in mid-air on his swinging bridge and stained the wet square red and green? To ...

— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett

... with a full display of all the forms of the three conjugations. In his display he, like Alvarez before him, recapitulates the appropriate rules for each form. Collado nowhere presents his conjugational system as a paradigm but does, as we shall see, include a full complement of example sentences in his description, something which Rodriguez does not do in the ...

— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... recommends a paradigm shift in library service, and demonstrates the steps necessary to provide improved library services with ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... belongs to the first conjugation, and kenonwes to the second. There are three other conjugations, each of which shows some peculiarity in the prefixed pronouns, though, in the main, a general resemblance runs through them all. There are other variations of the pronouns, according to the "paradigm," as it is called, to which the verb belongs. Of these paradigms there are two, named in the modern Iroquois grammars paradigms K and A, from the first or characteristic letter of the first personal pronoun. The particular conjugation and paradigm to which any verb belongs can only ...

— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale