prototype

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.

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.

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

Sentences

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