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noun An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
noun An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
noun An early, typical example.

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A primitive form; an original or model after which anything is formed; the pattern of anything to be engraved, cast, etc.; an exemplar; an archetype; especially, in metrology, an original standard, to which others must conform, and which, though it may be imitated from something else, is not required to conform to anything else, but itself serves as the ultimate definition of a unit. Thus, the mètre des archives is a prototype, and so is the new international meter at Breteuil, although the latter is imitated from the former. But the mètre du conservatoire and the meters distributed by the International Bureau are not prototypes, since they have no authority except from the evidence that they conform to other measures. In many respects [he] deserves to be enniched, as a prototype for all writers, of voluminous works at least. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iii. 38. The square or circular altar, or place of worship, may easily be considered as the prototype of the Sikra surrounded by cells of the Jains. J. Fergusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 208.
National prototypes one of two meters and one of two kilograms kept in the custody of the United States Bureau of Standards, by comparison with which weights and measures used in the United States are ultimately determined. The two kilograms are those, designated as 4 and 20 by the International Commission of Weights and Measures, and consist of an alloy of 90 per cent. of platinum and 10 per cent. of iridium. They have been compared with great precision, both with the international prototype kilogram and with the kilograms issued by the Commission to the contributing governments. The two meters are those designated as 21 and 27. They consist of the same alloy, and have likewise been compared with the international prototype meter, and with the meters furnished to the other governments by the Commission. Kilogram 4 and meter 21 are used for actual comparisons with other weights or measures, while kilogram 20 and meter 27 are kept under seal for occasional use in verifying working kilogram 4 and working meter 21. In reference to the mètre des Archives, and the international prototype meter, and to the corresponding kilograms, these national standards are copies; but their formal adoption as the authoritative standards to which other standards in the United States are to be conformed has caused them to be called, perhaps with justice, the national prototype kilogram and the national prototype meter.

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This prototype is amazing, and if you ever get the production costs down I'm sure it will have some extra-ordinary applications. — InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
A digital camera prototype was almost ready in 1996, when Incentive sold Hasselblad to UBS Capital, the private equity branch of UBS. — Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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Airbus parent company EADS says that due to many technical problems, it remains unclear when a prototype will be able to lift off. — Gates of Vienna
The tests to be run during the prototype are application response, throughput and network availability. — CertCities.com | IT Forums

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French, from Greek prōtotupon, from neuter of prōtotupos, original : prōto-, proto- + tupos, model.

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from French prototype = Spanish Italian prototipo = Portuguese prototype, a prototype; Late Latin prototypus, original, primitive; from Greek πρωτότυπος, in the first form, original, neuter πρωτότυπον, a first or primitive form, from πρῶτος, first, + τύπος, impression, model, type: see type.

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