0 the first example of something, such as a machine or other industrial product, from which all later forms are developed:
a prototype for/of a new car
1 the original model of something from which later forms are developed
2 the first example of a machine or other industrial product, from which all later forms are developed:
build/develop/create a prototype Manufacturers have built a prototype which will be shown at the forthcoming trade fair.
early/first/working prototype Our first prototype digital camera appeared back in 1976.
a prototype of/for sth The firm and its industrial partners plan this summer to put a prototype of an underwater power platform off the Florida coast.
The manufacturing team develops fabrication plans for the prototypes developed by the design team.
Moreover, certain psychological phenomena suggest a structural reality underlying prototype effects.
Visual recognition and categorization on the basis of similarities to multiple class prototypes.
Good recognition of a previously unseen prototype can be explained by its relatively large mean similarity to exemplars in its class.
The transactions supported by the prototype application are relatively simple ones, with relatively simple rules of thumb used to direct the system's next move.
If a prototype is ultimately encoded in the network directly, it then becomes important to understand the process by which integration would create it.
The prototype, we are told, has electric motors on each wingtip to drive folding propellers.
Taking all string sequences together, the prototype achieved a score of 94.7% in detecting and extracting headed compounds.