An exemplar is a person, a place, an object, or some other entity that serves as a predominant example of a given concept (e.g. "The heroine became an ''exemplar'' in courage to the children"). It may also refer to:
* Exemplar, a well-known science problem and its solution, from Thomas Kuhn's ''
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philoso ...
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* ''Exemplar'', the first name for the ship
USS ''Dorothea L. Dix'' (AP-67)
* Exemplar, in
exemplification theory Exemplification theory is a theory that states that an event is the exemplification of a property in an entity. This identity is often modeled as an "ordered triple" of an entity, property type, and time.
Overview
Much of exemplification theory is ...
, an illustrative representation of information or an event
* Exemplar, a series of parallel-computing machines introduced in 1994 by
Convex Computer
Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the ...
* Exemplar (art history), an image or version upon which secondary or subsequent versions are dependent
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Exemplar (textual criticism)
In textual criticism, an exemplar is the text used to produce another text. In the study of the history of a text an especially important exemplar is that which precedes any split in the tradition of that text, that is, before significant textual v ...
, the text used to produce another version of the text
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Handwriting exemplar
A handwriting exemplar is a piece of writing that can be examined forensically, as in a handwriting comparison. The use of an exemplar is especially important to questioned document examination.
History
Use
Handwriting exemplars are used by a do ...
, a writing sample that can be examined forensically
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Exemplar theory, in psychology, a theory about how humans categorize objects and ideas
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Exemplars (comics), a fictional group of eight humans in the Marvel Comics universe
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Exemplars of Evil'', an accessory to the 3.5 edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' that shows how to build memorable villains
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The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars
''The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars'', also translated as ''The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety'' (), is a classic text of Confucian filial piety written by Guo Jujing ()() Wang, Qi (). ''Xu Wenxian Tongkao'' () vol. 71. during the Yuan dyn ...
'', a classic text of Confucian filial piety written by Guo Jujing during the Yuan dynasty
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Example (disambiguation)
Example may refer to:
* '' exempli gratia'' (e.g.), usually read out in English as "for example"
* .example, reserved as a domain name that may not be installed as a top-level domain of the Internet
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Exemplum
An exemplum (Latin for "example", pl. exempla, ''exempli gratia'' = "for example", abbr.: ''e.g.'') is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point. The word is also used to express an action performed by an ...
, a moral anecdote used to illustrate a point
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Role model
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