ETYM French paradigme, Latin paradigma, from Greek, to show by the side of, to set up as an example; para beside + deiknyanai to show. Related to Para-, and Diction.
1. Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word.
2. The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time.
3. An archetypal example or pattern that provides a model for a process or system.
Example, especially of grammatical inflections.
All those factors, both scientific and sociological, that influence the research of the scientist. The term, first used by the us historian of science T S Kuhn, has subsequently spread to social studies and politics.