Word Finder - prototypes

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An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.

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An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.

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The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.

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A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.

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An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.

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A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.

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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.

Such figurines are in a sense the prototypes of the Venus of Medici.

No doubt the others had historical prototypes.

It is here that many of the world's best known brands unveil their brand new products and even some prototypes.

What chiefly distinguishes him from his Greek prototypes is that his purpose is rather ethical than purely speculative; the zeal of a teacher and reformer is more strong in him than even the intellectual passion of a thinker.

That's because some of them are prototypes.

But the lords are secretly planning to use the golems as prototypes for an army of conquest!

The authors compare three prototypes, namely pixel intensity, edge pixel, and extended edge.

The procedure was often iterative, with a series of prototypes being built to test various options.

Watch a video clip of the SLS process in action What machines do we build prototypes on?

This keyword may be used multiple times in an XS module to enable and disable prototypes for different parts of the module.

Together with the NCCG, we then worked with suppliers to provide feedback on designs and evaluate prototypes.

High-quality printouts, especially when in color, can also be used in the manufacturing of full-size prototypes.

We also tackle urgent one-off prototypes and everything in between.

The process of evolving similarity-based prototypes is also recursive.

Visitors walk up a spiral ramp to view displays of the marque including its sedans, engines, motorcycles, racing thoroughbreds and prototypes.

The household of the Norman and Angevin kings of England included certain persons of secondary rank, styled dapifers, seneschals or stewards (the prototypes of the lord steward), who were entrusted with domestic and state duties; the former duties were those of purveyors and sewers to the king, the latter were undefined.

Two high-fidelity, 21-foot wingspan prototypes of the BWB concept have been designed and produced for wind tunnel and flight testing this year.

They established themselves as a major computer component manufacturer and in the early 2000's created a relationship with Intel so Asus would receive any prototypes and samples ahead of other competitors.

In fact, the earliest electric guitars from the Rickenbacker guitar company were not electric guitars as you know them today, but actually prototypes of electric lap steels.

The team at Maxis developed a series of different prototypes, like BIOME, to explore the different design directions that Spore could take when it was ready for mass consumption.

Prototypes like these are not typically released to the public, even though they may be created for a wide range of games.

Electronic Arts says that by issuing some of these prototypes, like BIOME, to the public, they are offering gamers a "golden ticket" into the creative process.

Instead of keeping its designs behind glass, it opened its cases to its customers, allowing them to handle and view up close high quality prototypes of its diamond jewelry.

Other prototypes currently undergoing research are small enough to fit easily inside a human ear.

Leonardo da Vinci created drawings and designs of transport vehicles, but no prototypes were developed.

The first few prototypes of these included hooks that had the cable screwed on and another where the hook and cable were melded together as one piece.

I started the company in 2004 and spent several years working on prototypes, laboratory testing of various materials, and field studies to gather product and marketing information from potential customers.

They are comprehended under the general name of amesha spenta (" immortal holy ones") and are the prototypes of the seven amshaspands of a later date.

Most of the modern buildings have been erected after celebrated prototypes of other countries and eras, so that, as has been said by Moriz Carriere, a walk through Munich affords a picture of the architecture and art of two thousand years.

Thus, about the year 1865, there commenced an export of enamels which had no prototypes in Japan, being destined frankly for European and American collectors.

No doubt this last of the bogatuirs possessed the violent passions as well as the wide views of his prototypes.

There is a certain poverty and decadence of art, a certain simplicity of civilization and a decline in the shape and decoration of pottery which seems to exhibit signs of derivation from skin prototypes elsewhere associated with desert peoples.

The object of the Bureau is to make and provide prototypes of the metre and kilogramme, for the various subscribing countries.

Each of their homes had large "stables" (he refused to call them garages, "It's such an uncivilized word.") filled with Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Porsches, along with prototypes that Sarah did not even try to keep track of.

In October 1997, the contract to build and test six prototypes was received - including two static test airframes.

The highly burnished pottery may be based on metal prototypes.

We deliver innovative solutions to our clients by means of prototypes and proof-of-concept demonstrators.

He has already produced prototypes of a device - currently undergoing field trials in Germany - that looks set to provide a solution.

A constellation of space-based kinetic interceptors could not be deployed for many years, although small numbers of prototypes could possibly be deployed earlier.