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Adjective
/āˈtipikəl/,
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Not representative of a type, group, or class,
  1. Not representative of a type, group, or class
    • - a sample of people who are rather atypical of the target audience
    • - there were somewhat atypical results in May and November
  1. not representative of a group, class, or type; "a group that is atypical of the target audience"; "a class of atypical mosses"; "atypical behavior is not the accepted type of response that we expect from children"
  2. deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior"
  3. An atypical antipsychotic; Not conforming to the normal type; Unusual or irregular
  4. not usual; often refers to the appearance of precancerous or cancerous cells.
  5. Atypical means something that is irregular or not ordinary.
  6. Literally, "not typical." Exhibits unusual characteristics. For example, atypical hyperplasia is a dangerous increase in the number of breast cells; a sign that breast cancer may develop.
  7. Deviating markedly from the rule or standard; not typical or regular; above or below average.
  8. Not usual or not normal. Atypical cells are abnormal cells. They do not necessarily progress to cancer, but they are known to increase a woman's risk by four to five times.
  9. Atypical means "not typical" or not as usual. It may or may not be a problem, depending on how it is used and to what it is referring.
  10. Antler growth which does not fork typically (off a single beam or branch)
  11. Not normal, irregular, abnormal, not conforming to a type, abnormal in presentation, morphology, appearance or behavior
  12. Not usual; abnormal.
  13. skin cells showing atypia
  14. Irregular or unusual.
  15. The simple, straightforward definition would be "unusual," but "atypical" means much more than that. In a diagnosis, the use of the term atypical is a vague warning to the physician that the pathologist is worried about something, but not worried enough to say that the patient has cancer.
  16. not typical; different.