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A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
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The beautiful model had her face on the cover of almost every fashion magazine imaginable.
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A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
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A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
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The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
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A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
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The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
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A style, type, or design.
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He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.
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The structural design of a complex system.
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The team developed a sound business model.
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A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
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British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.
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An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
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An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
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An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
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Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
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In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.