Prototype

Definition: Prototype

Prototype

Noun

1. A standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father".

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Date "prototype" was first used: 1603. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Mechanical Engineering

Meteorology & Standards

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Prototype

Frequency

Regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality; (exactness); even tenor; system; routine; (custom); formula; rule; (form, regulation); keynote, standard, model; precedent; (prototype); conformity.

Indication

Exposition; (explanation), proof; (evidence); pattern; (prototype).

Prediction

Prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.

Prototype

Noun: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-figure.

Crosswords: Prototype

Dutch (prototype), French (paragons, pattern, prototype, specimen).

Not bad, for an early prototype. (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

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Books

• America's X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle : NASA Single-Stage Rocket Prototype (reference)

• Electronic Prototype Construction (reference)

• Home Workshop Prototype Firearms : How To Design, Build, And Sell Your Own Small Arms (reference)

• Jeep Prototype & Concept Vehicles: Photo Archive (reference)

• Prototype Concept Cars 2003 Calendar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prototype X29a (reference)

• Star Trek: Voyager - Episode 29, Prototype (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Prototype Vol. 3 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Illustration of prototype machine to perform mammography by Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan). Since this machine is used solely for mammography, it is called Positron Emission Mammography (PEM). Credit: Joseph Frank, NIH Diagnostic Imaging.

Block Tunnel with Missile Prototype. Credit: NASA.

Helios Prototype on Lakebed. Credit: NASA.

Prototype "portable" depth recorder used as part of 808 fathometer system Bulletin 13 of the Association of Field Engineers, 1939, p. 102. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Prototype flow manipulation equipment for study on Prudence Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Profiles of submarine mountains discovered in the Gulf of Alaska by systematic Coast and Geodetic tracklines between 1925 and 1939. Pratt and Welker are the prototype "guyots" described by Harry Hess a few years later. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska" by H. W. Murray. In: "Submarine Mountains in the Gulf of Alaska". Published in Bulletin of the GSA, V. 52, 1941. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 47. Sigsbee sounding machine, designed by Lieutenant Charles D. Sigsbee, USN. Sigsbee's sounding machine was constructed on the basis of the Thomson wireline sounding machine. The Sigsbee apparatus represents the first real industrial construction of such a device. It was the prototype for the majority of wireline machines subsequently invented and used. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 67. The bathythermograph first conceived by Athelstan Spilhaus in 1936 and produced in 1937. This instrument measured a continuous profile of sea- temperature versus depth. It was the prototype of many types of instruments used either for studies of physical oceanography or for use by the undersea warfare community. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 7. Autonomous ultrasonic tide recorder. This instrument was mounted on the bottom and emitted sound waves that reflected off the water surface. As the water level changed, the instrument would record the apparent changes in depth. This instrument was developed for Crouzet Marine Oceanology Corporation from a prototype developed by the Studies and Research Department of France Electric. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

An early image from Applications Technology Satellite 1 (ATS-1). This satellite was launched into orbit on December 7, 1966 and was the prototype for the GOES series of satellites as well as for many modern communications satellites. Credit: NOAA in Space.

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The overhanging leaf sees here its prototype.

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Health

Research showing that the brain undergoes subtle changes prior to a seizure has led to a prototype device that may be able to predict seizures up to 3 minutes before they begin. (references)

Also in use is a rapid immunoblot strip assay (RIBA), an investigational prototype assay to identify serum antibody to recombinant proteins and peptides specific for SNV and other hantaviruses. (references)

Business

Turin, Piedmont's regional capital and hub of the FIAT group, accommodates about one third of Italy's production facilities and is known the world over for its excellence in vehicle styling, design and prototype development. (references)

Most of the world's big automotive companies have fuel cell development programs and have launched prototype vehicles, fueled either by methanol or stored hydrogen gas. However, these cars are not being rushed into production because not many people could afford the expected prices. (references)

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Expressions using "prototype": Application software prototype implementation system ♦ pattern prototype ♦ prototype tests. Additional references.

Beginning with "prototype": prototype-build, prototype-of.

Ending with "prototype": Sports-prototype.

Albanian

prototip (antitype, archetype). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نموذج بدئي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

оригинал (exemplar, original, protoplast, script), първообраз (progenitor, protoplast), първоначален модел, прототип (antitype, archetype). (various references)

Chinese 

原型, 樣機 . (various references)

Czech

prototyp (epitome). (various references)

Danish

prototype (build, pilot model), testmodel (pilot model), model (model). (various references)

Dutch

prototype. (various references)

Esperanto

prototipo, pratipo. (various references)

Farsi 

پیش گونه , مدل پیش الگو, نمونه اصلی , نخستین افریده , نخستین بشر, اصل ماده , شکل اولیه . (various references)

Finnish

prototyyppi (pilot model, preliminary model), mallikappale (master component), malli (design, model, pattern, sample, specimen), koekappale (pilot model). (various references)

French

prototype (preliminary model, prototype form). (various references)

German

Prototyp (archetype, prefiguration), Urbild (archetype, original, prefiguration), Muster (design, figure, model, motif, paragon, pattern, patterns, sample, specimen, type). (various references)

Greek 

πρωτότυπο (blueprint, original, script, top copy). (various references)

Hebrew 

אב מ�"�", אב טיפוס (archetype), �"ו�'מ�" (example, exemplar, illustration, instance, lead, model, norm, sample, specimen, type). (various references)

Hungarian

prototípus (pilot model, protoplast). (various references)

Italian

prototipo (foretype). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

試作機 , 祖型 , 原型 (archetypal, model, pattern), プロテスタント教会 (produce, producer, producer system, protest, protest song, Protestant Church, protoactinium, protocol, proton, protoplast, prototyping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プロトタイプ , しさくき, そけい (groin), �'�"けい (archetypal, base form, model, original form, pattern, reduction of penalty, severe punishment). (various references)

Korean 

시� ��'�. (various references)

Manx

frauehoylley. (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

protótipo (archetype, paragon, standard, type). (various references)

Romanian

prototip (archetype, type), model prim, arhetip (archetype). (various references)

Russian 

прототип (archetype, double, protoplast). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prototip (archetype). (various references)

Spanish

prototipo (antitype, archetype, byword, original). (various references)

Swedish

prototyp (build, pilot model), urbild (original). (various references)

Turkish

prototip (archetype), orijinal (inventive, original, straight), ilk örnek (archetype), asıl örnek. (various references)

Ukrainian

прототип (antetype, archetype, double, original, protoplast). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật đầu tiên (first), nguyên mẫu (archetype, protoplast), người đầu tiên (first), mẫu đầu tiên. (various references)

prototypon. (various references)

exemplar. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prototype": prototyped, prototypes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prototype" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phototype, protogype, ptototype. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: topotype.

-2 letters: pottery.

-3 letters: poetry, popery, potter, pretty, pyrope, tooter, topper.

-4 letters: otter, petto, petty, potto, potty, repot, rooty, ropey, rotte, tepoy, toper, torot, torte, toter, toyer, troop, trope.

-5 letters: otto, oyer, pepo, perp, pert, poet, poop, poor, pope, pore, port, prep, prey, prop, pyre, repo, repp, root, rope, ropy, rote, roto, ryot, toot, tope.

+1 letter: prototyped, prototypes.

+5 letters: protoplanetary.