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Definition prototype

Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +‎ -type.

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

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