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noun
A type specimen explicitly designated to show microscopic structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
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noun
A type section of a tectonic zone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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History
From tecto- + type, coined independently in different fields. The earliest attested sense is the taxonomic one, coined by Frederick Chapman in 1912.
