prototype

Meaning

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

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

Synonyms

model

pattern

archetype

paradigm

standard

example

ideal

original

exemplar

paragon

specimen

sample

epitome

image

proto

master

template

picture

test pattern

mode

experiment

model machine

mold

norm

normative

effigy

painting

🖼️

criterion

cast

archetypal

phantom

prefiguration

protoplast

quintessence

representative

root

antitype

screed

script

simile

source

antetype

templet

test piece

trial manufacture

Plototype

formwork

design

test model

developmental prototype

Translations

prototype

Prototyp

prototipo

prototype

prototipo

protótipo

prototip

prototipus

Muster

Urbild

exemplar

model

πρωτότυπο

prototip

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹəʊtətʌɪp/

Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος (prōtótupos, “original; prototype”), from πρωτο- (prōto-, “first”) (from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “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.

Sentences

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