ideal 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.
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The ideal types of microphones for a given situation directly capture your intended audio source, such as your voice or a musical instrument, without picking up any other nearby sound.
The shape of things to come: Different types of microphones and when to use them | Mike Levine | August 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAnd why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksHers was the ideal type of Japanese feature, so rarely seen amongst the common people, and considered so unlovely by Europeans.
In Eastern Seas | J. J. SmithIn the Old Testament the ideal type is the "just man," who conformed to ritual standards at all points.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerHe was the ideal type of the feudal lord for whom no interest prevails against his own.
Belgium | Emile Cammaerts
About 1200 this ideal type gave place to the later "realistic" crucifix.
Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely | Rev. Edward Conybeare.
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