prototype
NounOpen English WordNet
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Translations
Noun original form or object which is a basis
- Spanish
- prototipo
- French
- prototype
- German
- Prototyp
- Italian
- prototipo
- Portuguese
- protótipo
- Turkish
- prototip
- Russian
- прототи́п prototíp
- Arabic
- نَمُوذَج أَوَّلِيّ namūḏaj ʔawwaliyy
- Chinese
- 原型 yuánxíng
- Japanese
- 原型 genkei
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— Edmund Burke
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<systems> An early version of a product, designed to demonstrate feasability and elicit feedback. A prototype usually has some subset of the functions, behaviour and appearance of the finished product. It is usually made using a method suitable for producing a one-off rather than mass production.
2.<programming> In prototype-based programming, an object that is intended to be cloned to create similar objects which may then be modified independently and/or cloned themselves.
(2010-03-02)