(technical)a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model (技)范例;模式 there is a new paradigm for public art in this country. 这个国家有一种新的公众艺术模式。 ■a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject 范式
a set of linguistics items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles 纵聚合关系语言项。 常与 syntagm 相对 English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’. 英语限定词之间是纵聚合关系:我们可以说a book或his book但不能说a his book 。 ■(in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension (拉丁语、希腊语和其他屈折语言传统语法中的)词形变化(表)
语源
late 15th cent.: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai 'show side by side', from para- 'beside' + deiknunai 'to show'