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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0732.00009.] This paper provides a summary of much of the author's work to date on the concept of finite type for a real subvariety of \(\mathbb{C}^ n\). This is basically a measure of the local obstructions for a given real subvariety to contain a complex analytic subvariety. The author refers to several works in the literature which use this concept, and he indicates that much current research involves generalizing results for strongly pseudoconvex domains to domains with boundaries of finite type. The author stresses the difference between the algebraic, real analytic, and formal categories, while demonstrating his contention that ``finite type is a polynomial notion.'' He proves the following interesting fact. If \(M\) is a real analytic subvariety of \(\mathbb{C}^ n\) and \(p\) lies in \(M\), then either \(p\) is a point of finite type or there is a complex analytic variety lying in \(M\) and containing \(p\).