Word Finder - paradigms

definition

A pattern, a way of doing something, especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

example

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.

synonyms

• model
• worldview

definition

An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

synonyms

• exemplar
• posterboy
• template

definition

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.

example

The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."

The chapter ends with an appendix containing paradigms of nominal declensions in some of the Dravidian languages.

Do we need to radically rethink the paradigms for development in the region?

Existing strategy paradigms are incorporated into an integrational framework that enables empirical research to be more reflective of management practice.

It is an elementary introduction to the study of Hebrew, the first of its kind, in which only the most indispensable definitions and rules have a place, the remainder being almost wholly occupied by paradigms. Moses Kimhi was the first who made the verb paqadh a model for conjugation, and the first also who introduced the now usual sequence in the enumeration of stem-forms. His handbook was of great historical importance as in the first half of the 6th century it became the favourite manual for the study of Hebrew among non-Judaic scholars (1st ed., Pesaro, 1508).

You want the web server to support four of the most popular programming paradigms.

Savings and shares raising the program income is advocated within both the financial sustainability paradigm and poverty alleviation paradigms.

Indirect authoring can also be applied to other existing hypertext paradigms.

They further argue that despite the burgeoning literature on the merger of ICT and education, discourse between the three paradigms is surprisingly limited.