model

mod·el   (mŏd'l)    n.   A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle. A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics: a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model. A style or design of an item: My car is last year's model. One serving as an example to be imitated or compared: a model of decorum. See Synonyms at ideal. One that serves as the subject for an artist, especially a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer. A person employed to display merchandise, such as clothing or cosmetics. Zoology An animal whose appearance is copied by a mimic. v.   mod·eled also mod·elled, mod·el·ing also mod·el·ling, mod·els also mod·els v.   tr. To make or construct a model of. To plan, construct, or fashion according to a model. To make conform to a chosen standard: He modeled his manners on his father's. To make by shaping a plastic substance: modeled a bust from clay. To form (clay, for example) into a shape. To display by wearing or posing. In painting, drawing, and photography, to give a three-dimensional appearance to, as by shading or highlighting. v.   intr. To make a model. To serve or work as a model. adj.   Being, serving as, or used as a model. Worthy of imitation: a model child. [French modèle, from Italian modello, diminutive of modo, form, from Latin modus, measure, standard; see med- in Indo-European roots.] mod'el·er n.

Model

Mod"el\, n. [F. mod[`e]le, It. modello, fr. (assumed) L. modellus, fr. modulus a small measure, dim. of modus. See Mode, and cf. Module.]

1. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

In charts, in maps, and eke in models made. --Gascoigne.

I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal. --Shak.

You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. --Addison.

2. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.

[The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it. --Am. Cyc.

When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model. --Shak.

3. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

4. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. --South.

5. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life. --Shak.

6. A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.

A professional model. --H. James.

Working model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or expected to do.

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model

An abstraction of reality, generally referring in investments to a mathematical formula designed to determine security values. Economists also use models to project trends in economic variables such as interest rates, economic activity, and inflation rates.

Main Entry: ¹mod·el
Pronunciation: 'mäd-^&l
Function: noun
1 a : a pattern of something to be made : acast of a tooth or oral cavity
2 : something (as a similar object or a construct) used to help visualize or explore something else (as the living human body) that cannot bedirectly observed or experimented on —see ANIMAL MODEL
3 : a system of postulates, data, andinferences presented as a mathematical description of an entity or state of affairs

model   (mŏd'l)  Pronunciation Key  A systematic description of an object or phenomenon that shares important characteristics with the object or phenomenon. Scientific models can be material, visual, mathematical, or computational and are often used in the construction of scientific theories. See also hypothesis, theory.

MODEL language
A Pascal-like language with extensions for large-scale system programming and interface with Fortran applications. MODEL includes generic procedures, and a "static" macro-like approach to data abstraction. It produces P-code and was used to implement the DEMOS operating system on the Cray-1.
["A Manual for the MODEL Programming Language", J.B. Morris, Los Alamos 1976].
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