The phrase "acting as a type of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that functions in a specific role or category, often in a comparative context.
Example: "The new software is acting as a type of bridge between the old system and the new one."
Alternatives: "serving as a kind of" or "functioning as a form of".
He exuberantly held court in the cavernous hall for more than three hours, acting as a type of cheerleader in chief for Disney's coming animated movies.
Droid Zap is genuinely cool, acting as a type of AirDrop service for quickly sending photos between devices, but the rest can go, since they really just do a subpar job of mimicking existing Android services.
Where the fund manager serves as a general partner of a partnership, these payments can be structured as an allocation of profits within the partnership, either to the general partner itself or to a special purpose "carried interest partner" acting as a type of limited partner.
Despite this rosy economic news, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCISS) has laid out a far-reaching anti-immigration agenda based on the idea that the federal government – acting as a type of central planning organization – must enact numerous immigration restrictions or Americans won't find work.
The first is that they're acting as a type of self-appointed brand manager.
Three-quarters of the sculpture's external surface reflects the sky and the name refers to it acting as a type of gate that helps bridge the space between the sky and the viewer.
Also note that types like [e]i are in fact polymorphic types, with i acting as a type variable.
Neural stem cells (NSCs) acting as a source of various cell types are a subpopulation of cells that can self-renewal and proliferate identical cells.
Our studies demonstrate that wild type BRCA1 associates with and modulates Smad3 protein activity during oxidative stress responses, acting as a regulator of oxidative stress-sensitive proteins.
When it was acting as a telecommunications service provider (a type of "common carrier," a term we'll get to later), AT&T was expected to play by the FCC's rules, and when it was acting as a provider of information services, it would have to meet FTC standards.
