paradigm
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpæ.ɹə.daɪm/
- (America) enPR: ˈpär.ə.dīm, IPA: /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/, /ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪm/, /ˈpeɪɹ.ə.daɪm/
- (Mary-marry-merry)
- (Mary-marry-merry)
paradigm (plural paradigms)
- A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often pejorative) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- Synonyms: model, worldview
- Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.
- An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
- Synonyms: template, exemplar, posterboy
- 2000, "Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.":
- quote en
- 2003, Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 65058 5, page 46:
- quote en
- (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
- The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."
- (exemplar) Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
- French: paradigme
- German: Paradigma, Weltanschauung, Bezugssystem, Sicht der Dinge
- Italian: paradigma
- Portuguese: paradigma
- Russian: паради́гма
- Spanish: paradigma
- French: paradigme
- German: Beispiel, Musterbeispiel
- Italian: paradigma
- Portuguese: paradigma
- Russian: паради́гма
- Spanish: paradigma
- French: paradigme
- German: Paradigma
- Italian: paradigma
- Portuguese: paradigma
- Russian: паради́гма
- Spanish: paradigma
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