exemplar

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American Suzuki was also able to supply written documentation reflecting that the exemplar was an "OEM" part used in a GSX-R1000 purchased in the United States.

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  1. noun One that is worthy of imitation; a model. See Synonyms at ideal.
  2. noun One that is typical or representative; an example.
  3. noun An ideal that serves as a pattern; an archetype.

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  • In its plan and development "Precaution" was a compromise between the purely fashionable novel and that collection of moral disquisitions of which Hannah More's Cœlebs was the great exemplar, and still remained the most popular representative. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
  • Mr Hartley said: "Andor is truly an exemplar, at the cutting edge of technology, an excellent employer providing high-quality jobs for local people and a company that clearly wants to grow." —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • American Suzuki was also able to supply written documentation reflecting that the exemplar was an "OEM" part used in a GSX-R1000 purchased in the United States. —  Roadracingworld.com
  • As an exemplar, along with Jonathan Ive, of the marriage of form and function, he's already synonymous with many other benchmarks in the technology industries, and Macs continue to be popular among creative designers. —  Smashing Magazine
  • In the first method, referred to as the indirect approach, the high-dimensional image feature is transformed to a lower dimensional space by generating what we call the frame to exemplar (FED) distance. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English exemplere, from Late Latin exemplārium, from Latin exemplum, example; see example.

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  1. from Middle English exemplaire, from Old French exemplaire, French exemplaire = Spanish ejemplar = Portuguese exemplar = Italian esemplare (cf. German exemplarisch = Danish Swedish exemplarisk), from Late Latin exemplaris, that serves as pattern or model, from Latin exemplum, a pattern, copy: see example, sample, exemplar, n.
  2. from Middle English exemplaire, from Old French exemplaire, essemplaire, French exemplaire = Spanish ejemplar = Portuguese exemplar = Italian esemplare = Dutch exemplaar = G. Danish Swedish exemplar, from Latin exemplar, rarely exemplare, neuter, exemplaris, masculine, Late Latin also exemplarium, neuter, a copy, pattern, model, example, from exemplaris (Late Latin), that serves as a pattern or model: see exemplar, adjective
 

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