His African Typic Collection would be an international hit in 1984 and is perhaps his best known album.

The great group categories are divided into three kinds of soil subgroups: typic, intergrade and extragrade.

Polecats were found in two major phenotypes a typic one and a dark fur one with no black mask.

A typic subgroup represents the basic or 'typical' concept of the great group to which the described subgroup belongs.

The horseman on Hermaeus' version is however portrayed somewhat different, being equipped with a typic Scythian longbow.

Classified as coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic typic eutrudepts:

Fans cited "African Typic Collection" as the start of the interaction between zouk and makossa, but the single was hard to come by in America.

Nevertheless, Mr. Thomas's title track surpasses the rest of "The African Typic Collection."

Kalkaska soils are classified in USDA soil taxonomy as sandy, isotic, frigid Typic Haplorthods.

The soil is characterized as red-yellow podzolic type, with gravelly clay, heavy clay, Typic dark clayey; oxisol with clay loam.

Bama soils are classified in USDA soil taxonomy as fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Paleudults.

She was typic Mennonite, proven by the fact that Emma's father operat a big garage in Reading, where his father had been hidebound Mennonite, but also a sharp gentleman with pfennig.

The atmosphere at typical jetliner cruising altitudes is generally very dry and cold, and the outside air pumped into the cabin on a long flight typic condensation which might cause corrosion or electrical faults is eliminated.

It extends from Virginia through North Carolina (where it is the state soil), South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, with the typic Cecil pedon actually located in Franklin County, NC.

In the third subclass, the typic foothills type, tulip poplar is the dominant species, but the canopy also may include basswood, white ash, mockernut hickory, yellow buckeye, silverbell, American beech, white oak, and red maple.

The effects of early zouk were heard promptly in 1984 with Sam Fan Thomas's inventive makossa song "African Typic Collection," savored on dance floors from Dakar to Los Angeles, which used zouk's long horn lines and tightened beat.

Although Mr. Mangwana comes from Zaire, his album could segue easily into "The African Typic Collection," since the songs share the fresh rhythms of zouk and the pervasive cascading guitar solos of Zaire's prevalent pop mode, soukous.

This word, which may be new to most of our readers, has long been current in the Far West, and is likely to be adopted into the language, and become as indispensable as the typic words taboo and tabooed, which Herman Melville gave us some forty years ago.

LEAD: Sam Fan Thomas of Cameroon had an international hit in 1984 with "African Typic Collection," a medley of electrified traditional rhythms bound together by the exhortation "Dansez, dansez, yeah" that found fans in French-speaking Africa, Europe and the Caribbean.

But what can I do in a more typical year?

She does not seem to have been a typical one.

In other ways, the day could not be more typical.

Education at the typical community college will now be free.

These recent days have not been typical of your future life.

They are not typical of the people who live here.

A typical team is made up of six to 12 members.

Student life, like the school itself, is different from a typical college.

The typical student was between 14 and 18 years of age.

The most typical reason is cost, but also use case.

What I did was typical of any woman my age.

His men and women are real, several of them typical.

I would say your own experience is very far from typical.

The typical York student is a black woman around age 28 with a child.

If we're up against a really typical case we have a job on hand.

If you're a typical American, the answer is for the rest of your life.

The process at Washington, where 98 percent of the 702 students are black, was typical.

Now four or five of these might be made on a single typical day.

They told him it was not typical of someone his age.

She thought it would be like her friends' more typical college experience.

For the typical family of four, it is up by 60 percent.

But the typical level found in field studies was much lower.

A typical high school teacher works with more than 150 students every day.

The typical high school has about 2,800 students, and some have 3,500.

The typical wait is four to six hours, he said.