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PROTOTYPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A standard or typical example
Example:
he provided America with an image of the good father
Synonyms:
epitome; image; paradigm; prototype
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prototype" is a kind of...):
example; model (a representative form or pattern)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prototype"):
concentrate (a concentrated example of something)
imago ((psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood)
Derivation:
prototypal; prototypic; prototypical (representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb prototype
Context examples:
The filter prototype, tested in Al Haouz, a rural district about 40 kilometres from Marrakech, removed a large amount of waste such as solid particles, organic pollution, nitrogen and fertiliser residue.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
It was a strength we are wont to associate with things primitive, with wild animals, and the creatures we imagine our tree-dwelling prototypes to have been—a strength savage, ferocious, alive in itself, the essence of life in that it is the potency of motion, the elemental stuff itself out of which the many forms of life have been moulded; in short, that which writhes in the body of a snake when the head is cut off, and the snake, as a snake, is dead, or which lingers in the shapeless lump of turtle-meat and recoils and quivers from the prod of a finger.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The research team now plans to prepare structures thicker than those in the current study and greater than the optical absorption depth, with a view to building prototype solar cells based on this technology.
(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)
The first PMD prototype, which interacts with these asphalt codes, was successfully presented at the 8th European Asphalt Technology Association (EATA) Conference in Granada (3–5 June 2019).
(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)
