prototype

Betekenis

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.
4. An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. 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

To create a prototype of.

Koppelteken as

pro‧to‧type

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɹəʊtətʌɪp/

Etimologie

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.

Sinne

" Reverence " was also eventually leaked as a playable prototype .