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noun
2.
someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist.
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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.
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Prototypic
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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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