prototype

IPA: prˈoʊtʌtaɪp

An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
(motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Examples of "prototype" in Sentences

The nearly-complete prototype is sitting on the Taleisin, Arizona campus.
Quick Spin: 2010 Plug-in Prius prototype is just like your mother's Prius, but better
The PrestaLever, now just in prototype form, will be able to hold tool bits in the handle.
Creating different combinations of the prototype is the next design challenge for this project.
"We show that this preference for the prototype is a function of the prototype being particularly easy to perceive," Winkielman told Reuters on Tuesday.
According to Air Power Australia, a Russian prototype is at least equal to the F-22 and easily outclasses the F-35, which the Administration has picked as our front-line fighter.
If the United-Aer Lingus joint venture prototype is successful, we will soon see such alliances flourishing within the fragile regulatory systems of new European Union members such as Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, where wages are extremely low.