Prototype (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
verb (used with object), pro·to·typed, pro·to·typ·ing.
  1. to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car.
noun
  1. one of the first units manufactured of a product, which is tested so that the design can be changed if necessary before the product is manufactured commercially
  2. a person or thing that serves as an example of a type
  3. the ancestral or primitive form of a species or other group; an archetype
Prototype (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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