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ide'al type'




a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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