paradigm
noun15th century{ds||1||}
- a model for something that may be copied : example, pattern; especially : an exceptional example or archetype
- a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind
- an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
paradigm shift
noun
paradigm shift
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- an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way
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