Plural of paradigm
regular plural
The plural of paradigm is paradigms or paradigmata.
Forms of paradigm
| Singular | paradigm /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | paradigms paradigmata /ˌpæɹədɪɡˈmɑːta/ |
| Countable | countable |
Paradigms and paradigmata in a sentence
- Curry is a multi-paradigm declarative language covering functional, logic, and concurrent programming paradigms.1999, Gopalan Nadathur, Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming: International Conference, PPDP'99, Paris, France, September…. From the entry multi-paradigm
- The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming.1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl^([ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/HBK.ps])…. From the entry ml
- It has already been explained that the series in the Kartvelian languages are sets of tense–mood–aspect paradigms.1985, Alice C. Harris, Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry screeve
- Finally, names more or less adapted to Greenlandic phonotax will show a few deviations from the declination paradigms: e.g.2012, Karen Langgård, “Considerations about the impact of Danish on the morphology of Kalaallisut”, in Hitomi Otsuka, Cornelia Stroh, Aina…. From the entry phonotax
- An interserver communications server can support and communication facility: connection-based, connectionless, urgent messages, communication via shared memory, and other paradigms.1987, Y. Artsy, A Study of Fully Open Computing Systems, page 58. From the entry interserver
Meaning of paradigm
- noun A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- noun An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
- noun A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
Questions about the plural of paradigm
- What is the plural of paradigm?
- The plural of paradigm is paradigms or paradigmata.
- Which is correct, paradigms or paradigmata?
- Both are used. paradigms is the more common of the two in English writing.
- Is paradigm countable?
- Paradigm is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: paradigm (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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