单词 | prototype |
释义 | prototype —prototypal, prototypical /proh'teuh tip"i keuhl/, prototypic, adj. —prototypically, adv. /proh"teuh tuyp'/, n. , v. prototyped, prototyping. n. 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. Biol. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group. v.t. 5. to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car. [1595-1605; < NL prototypon < Gk protótypon, n. use of neut. of protótypos original. See PROTO-, TYPE] Syn. 1. pattern. |
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