transcription, транскрипция: [ proʊtətaɪp ]
( prototypes)
1.
A prototype is a new type of machine or device which is not yet ready to be made in large numbers and sold.
Chris Retzler has built a prototype of a machine called the wave rotor.
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2.
If you say that someone or something is a prototype of a type of person or thing, you mean that they are the first or most typical one of that type.
He was the prototype of the elder statesman.
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