prototype

Meaning

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.

model

pattern

model machine

antetype

test piece

trial manufacture

Plototype

formwork

design

test model

developmental prototype

mould board

moulded board

preliminary model

preproduction model

master model

master plate

sample workpiece

top copy

original mold

shaping plate

gauge plate

profile gauge

reference date

prototype sample

prototype instrument

specimen machine

sample plate

proof plate

mould flat gauge

template gauge

pattern master

test dummy

master die

Frequency

Hyphenated as

pro‧to‧type

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹəʊtətʌɪp/

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.

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