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Typee
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is Herman Melville's first book (1846), a travel narrative based on his 1842 desertion from the Acushnet and weeks living among the Taipi on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas; controversial, revised, and his most popular lifetime work.
Typeface
Typeface: the shared design of a set of letterforms, distinct from a font, the file or metal that renders it. Covers font-versus-typeface terminology, history from Gutenberg, serif legibility research, and OpenType variable fonts (2016).
TypeRacer
TypeRacer is a free browser-based multiplayer typing race game launched March 2008 by Alex Epshteyn, the first real-time multiplayer typing game, where players type quotes from books, movies, and songs against live opponents with mandatory error correction and server-side anti-cheat.
Types of adoption under Canadian law
Types of adoption under Canadian law are the statutory categories, chiefly public, private, relative and step-parent, and adult adoption, defined differently by each province and territory.
Types of bowlers in cricket
Types of bowlers in cricket: pace bowlers (fast, fast-medium, medium) and spin bowlers (wrist spin, finger spin), with swing, seam and spin movement and the ICC 15-degree elbow rule.
Types of cheese
Types of cheese: hundreds of varieties grouped into roughly 12 coagulation-based families and commercial categories such as soft-ripened, blue-veined, pasta filata, and Cheddar, distinguished by milk type, moisture, ripening microbes, and protected origins.
Types of chocolate
Types of chocolate: dark, milk, white, and ruby (Barry Callebaut, 2017), plus couverture and compound. Defined by cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids proportions, FDA standards of identity, and processing like conching, alkalization, and tempering.
Types of concrete
Types of concrete are the distinct families of the composite building material made of cement, water, and aggregate, classified by density, reinforcement, workability, durability, and binder.
Types of democracy
Types of democracy: direct, representative, majoritarian, consensual, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian models distinguished by how popular rule is exercised, per V-Dem and comparative politics scholarship.
Types of marriages
Types of marriages: anthropologists classify marriage as monogamy (including serial and same-sex marriage) or polygamy, with polygyny the common form, polyandry rare, and group marriage rare; legal regimes vary across 189 countries.
Types of mesh
Types of mesh in computational simulation are distinguished mainly as structured meshes, whose elements follow ordered indexing, and unstructured meshes, which store elements with no predefined ordering relation.
Types of motorcycles
Types of motorcycles are categories defined by seating position, body style, and intended use, grouped as street, off-road, and dual-purpose, with street types including cruisers, sport bikes, scooters, and touring bikes.
Types of nationalism
Types of nationalism: classifications such as civic vs ethnic nationalism (the Kohn dichotomy), cultural and religious nationalism, and position-based typologies by Wirth, Hayes, and Symmons-Symonolewicz, plus survey evidence showing blurred boundaries.
Types of prostitution in modern Japan
Types of prostitution in modern Japan (売春): despite the 1956 Anti-Prostitution Law banning intercourse for compensation, a diversified industry of soaplands, fashion health, sexy cabarets, and host clubs operates under adult-entertainment regulation.
Types of rape
Types of rape, also called categories of sexual assault: statutory rape, marital rape, acquaintance and date rape, prison rape, and conflict-related sexual violence, distinguished by consent- versus coercion-based legal models across jurisdictions.
Types of restaurant
Types of restaurant: classification of food-service establishments by service model (full service, fast casual, quick service), price, format (fine dining, café, food truck, ghost kitchen), and ownership, with US industry figures.
Types of road
Types of road group highways by the service they provide, balancing through movement against access to adjacent property in a hierarchy of arterials, collectors, and local roads.
Types of seizures
The types of seizures are classified by the ILAE as focal onset, generalized onset, or unknown onset, based on where the seizure begins in the brain.
Types of socialism
Types of socialism: utopian socialism, Marxism, social democracy, democratic socialism, Marxism-Leninism, market socialism, and anarchism, distinguished by their institutions, ideals, and transformation paths.
Types of swords
Types of swords are the named forms the sword has taken across cultures, divided by material, blade geometry, and grip length, from the Roman gladius to the Japanese katana.
Types of tobacco
Types of tobacco: Virginia (flue-cured), Burley, Maryland, Oriental, fire-cured, and dark air-cured leaf of Nicotiana tabacum and N. rustica, defined by curing method, chemistry, legal categories, and use in cigarettes, cigars, pipe, and smokeless products.
TypeScript
TypeScript, or Microsoft TypeScript, is a statically typed superset of JavaScript created at Microsoft by Anders Hejlsberg, unveiled in 2012 and compiling to plain JavaScript.
Typesetting
Typesetting, also called composition, is the process of arranging text and type for printing or display, controlling the size, style, and spacing of type so that a text block is readable.
Typewriter
A typewriter is a machine that writes characters on paper when keys strike type against an inked ribbon; the first commercial success came in 1873.
Typewriter (2019 TV series)
Typewriter (टाइपराइटर) is a 2019 Hindi-language Netflix horror series of five episodes created, directed, and co-written by Sujoy Ghosh, set in Goa around Bardez Villa, a self-writing Remington typewriter, and a children's ghost club.
Typha
Typha (cattail) is a cosmopolitan wetland plant genus of rhizomatous perennials with brown flower spikes. Key species include T. latifolia, T. angustifolia, and the invasive hybrid T. × glauca.
Typha angustifolia
Typha angustifolia (narrowleaf cattail, lesser reed mace) is a temperate Northern Hemisphere emergent wetland perennial with narrow leaves and a 2-12 cm gap between male and female spike portions; invasive in North America and parent of the hybrid Typha x glauca.
Typha domingensis
Typha domingensis, southern cattail or Santo Domingo cattail, is a rhizomatous Typhaceae wetland helophyte native to tropics and subtropics worldwide, tolerant of brackish water, and widely used in constructed wetlands for wastewater phytoremediation.
Typha latifolia
Typha latifolia, broadleaf or common cattail, is a cosmopolitan emergent wetland plant of Typhaceae with male and female flower spikes touching; it hybridizes with T. angustifolia to form invasive T. × glauca and is used in wastewater treatment.
Typhaceae
Typhaceae (cattail family), Juss. 1789, a Poales family of two aquatic genera, Typha (cattails) and Sparganium (bur-reeds), wind-pollinated wetland herbs with dense cylindrical spikes, Cretaceous fossils, and invasive Typha in North America.