model

Meaning

1. A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion
2. A person, usually an attractive male or female, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
3. A representation of a physical object.
4. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
5. A style, type, or design.
6. The structural design of a complex system.
7. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
8. An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
9. An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
10. An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
11. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
12. In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.

pattern

good example

theoretical account

model machine

sample workpiece

small-scale reproduction

wave mode

shaping plate

gauge plate

profile gauge

prototype sample

prototype instrument

specimen machine

standard bearer

sample plate

proof plate

mould flat gauge

template gauge

wave pattern

role modem

part of that group

pattern after

macroskeleton

moral precept

praisworthy

advanced lay-out

mould board

moulded board

layout drawing

preproduction model

master plate

mold making

Frequency

Hyphenated as

mod‧el

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɒdl̩/

From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.

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