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prototype
[ proh-tuh-tahyp ]
noun
- the original or model on which something is based or formed.
Synonyms: pattern
She is the prototype of a student activist.
- something analogous to another thing of a later period:
a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing.
- Biology. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
verb (used with object)
- to create the prototype or an experimental model of:
to prototype a solar-power car.
prototype
/ ˌprəʊtəˈtɪpɪk; ˈprəʊtəˌtaɪp /
noun
- 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
- a person or thing that serves as an example of a type
- biology the ancestral or primitive form of a species or other group; an archetype
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Derived Forms
- ˌprotoˈtypal, adjective
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Other Words From
- pro·to·typ·i·cal [proh-t, uh, -, tip, -i-k, uh, l]; pro·to·typ·ic pro·to·typ·al [proh-t, uh, -, tip, -, uh, l], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prototype1
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Example Sentences
Meanwhile, SpaceX is constructing prototypes in Boca Chica, Texas, of its heavy-lift Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket.
A smaller prototype called Starhopper was flown as high as 490 feet last year.
Some such tests exist now, in prototype form, awaiting Food and Drug Administration approval and funding for mass distribution.
Their prototype base, printed last October in Copenhagen, is 10 meters tall and was printed layer by layer, its two walls joined together by a sinuous line of concrete layered into the middle.
Most current bioprinted tissue prototypes are done inside the lab, where scientists can maintain more intricate control of how the tissue grows.
Mazloomi and Evans built their prototype out of wood from local fir trees.
The prototype robot uses water that’s drawn in through a tube.
Within a few weeks, prototypes were at work in several cities.
I had to go on the website everyday, all the time, because I was writing the prototype.
I designed a 3D-printed prototype and we love it and it works great.
The FC-31 prototype was hidden except when it was flying, and not much detail was available.
Two weeks later, Ed Logg, a programmer, had a working prototype that looked very, very good.
McDonough helped create an implant prototype, but in the end, “nothing happened to it,” Williams said in court testimony.
Haloid spent nearly 15 years and $75 million developing prototype copiers, even building a factory in 1954 far ahead of demand.
Hull was frustrated that it took a long time and a lot of money to make small plastic prototype parts.
The prototype Land Rover was designed by a Jeep owner and built on a Jeep chassis.
Was I looking at the real me or just a reflection in the funhouse mirror of my prototype iPhone 6?
In those years, there were a lot of beach movies, and I would not have fit in to that kind of Hollywood prototype.
The 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt was produced in five different colors during its prototype tour, and the cars were later sold.
In March, Solar Roadways began releasing photos of the installed prototype.
In 2009, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) awarded Solar Roadways a contract to construct a prototype.
He was a nice guy from San Francisco; he would travel with his prototype and show it to people and they would order it.
This, lest we forget, remains the modern prototype for a quintessentially retrograde act.
She learned to key-punch, which was the prototype of computers.
Up next: a windmill prototype, which is a few months from being finished.
The duo received a $12,000 grant from USF for a prototype, along with $1,000 from the Tampa chapter of the Awesome Foundation.
It was a prototype made by Elio Motors, and it looks like a cross between a tandem bike and a Ford Fusion.
The prototype burger, which cost more than $330,000, was made up of about 40 billion cells produced in a lab in the Netherlands.
The star of the technology show was a prototype thought computer from three graduate students at Ben Gurion University.
Love began in a wondrous whirl, fashioning a kind of prototype.
Perhaps his almost perfectly spontaneous love of tiny flowers is already a considerable advance on his so-called prototype.
Black Hood saw that he would have to lie in order to protect his prototype, Kip Burland.
The first two Acts of Hills play proceed much after the manner of its prototype, with close parallels in language.
This Four Hundred has its prototype in all cities, and in some cities is known as the "fast set."
This causes us to feel that the prototype was "real," while the image is "imaginary."
The prototype of our memory-image did fit into a physical context, while our memory-image does not.
We have thus 'the veritable prototype of modern writings,' for all the twenty-two letters are here.
On the other hand, the most abrupt encounter with him moved her to no emotion as it had moved her prototype in the old days.
Much of Harte's work is in no way inferior to that of his great English prototype.
The West Wickham specimen has its prototype in the old churchyard at Hackney, and in other places.
The mirror receiving instrument employed was the heavy prototype of the delicate reflecting galvanometer of Sir William Thomson.
Archetype, rk′e-tīp, n. the original pattern or model, a prototype.
M. Salomon Reinach believes this prototype may be found in the Judiths of Cranach.
Behold, snake-worshippers of Mexico, the prototype of your grim idol, in Mammon's model slave and specimen disciple!
Festive portals constructed of light timbers and decorated for gala-days doubtless afforded the prototype for these works.
He appears in published reminiscences as the magnificent prototype of the author's agent.
The phenomenon is not so strange, or so novel, as it might seem; it has a standard prototype in the history of Rome.
It is thus that it may be said to have been the prototype of its great successor, the Mont Cenis.
For the prototype of Maggie also fell among these marauding vagrants, and was detained a little time among them.
When we study the pioneer and the colonist—the born and doomed colonist—we find his kinsman and prototype in Robinson Crusoe.
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