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pro⋅to⋅type

  [proh-tuh-tahyp] noun, verb -typed, -typ⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the original or model on which something is based or formed.
2. someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist.
3. something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing.
4. Biology. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
–verb (used with object)
5. to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car.
Origin:
1595–1605; < NL prōtotypon < Gk prōtótypon, n. use of neut. of prōtótypos original. See proto-, type

Related forms:
pro⋅to⋅typ⋅al, pro⋅to⋅typ⋅i⋅cal  [proh-tuh-tip-i-kuhl] , pro⋅to⋅typ⋅ic, adjective
pro⋅to⋅typ⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. pattern.
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pro·to·type   (prō'tə-tīp')   
n.  
  1. An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
  2. An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
  3. An early, typical example.
  4. Biology A form or species that serves as an original type or example.

[French, from Greek prōtotupon, from neuter of prōtotupos, original : prōto-, proto- + tupos, model.]
pro'to·typ'al (-tī'pəl), pro'to·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk), pro'to·typ'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
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Prototype

Pro"to*type\, n. [F., from L. prototypus original, primitive, Gr. ?, ?; ? first + ? type, model. See Proto-, and Type] An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.

They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. --Burke.
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Language Translation for : Prototype
Spanish: prototipo,
German: das Muster,
Japanese: 原形
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prototype 
1603, from Fr. prototype, from M.L. prototypon, from Gk. prototypon "a first or primitive form," prop. neut. sing. of prototypos "original, primitive," from protos "first" + typos "impression."
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prototype pro·to·type (prō'tə-tīp')
n.
A primitive or ancestral form or species.

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