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prototype

/ˈpɹoʊtəˌtaɪp/

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What does prototype mean?

noun

  1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
  2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
  3. A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
More meanings (4)

noun

  1. An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
  2. A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

verb

  1. To create a prototype of.
  2. (rare) To imitate or emulate.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpɹoʊtəˌtaɪp/

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THE PROPELLER TYPE.--The well known propeller is a type of wheel which has no prototype in nature.
James Slough ZerbeAeroplanesProject Gutenberg ebook #1445
We shall commence with the Italian dialect, which there is reason for supposing to be the prototype of the rest.
George BorrowThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainProject Gutenberg ebook #565
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Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
As already stated, I do not pretend that the production of horticultural novelties is the prototype of the origin of new species in nature.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
Coke, with his bullying methods and his way of acting both as judge and chief prosecutor, lacks little as prototype for the later Judge Jeffreys.
Victor MacClureShe Stands AccusedProject Gutenberg ebook #488