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-type

a suffix representing type (prototype), especially in names of photographic processes: ferrotype.
Compare typo-.
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-type is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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-type
 
n, —combining form
1.  type or form: archetype
2.  printing type or photographic process: collotype
 
[from Latin -typus, from Greek -typos, from tupostype]

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