PROTOTYPE


Meaning of PROTOTYPE in English

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.

N-COUNT : usu N of n

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