Usually means: Early model to test concepts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. prototype: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prototype: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prototype: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prototype: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prototype: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prototype, prototype: Wordnik
  7. prototype: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prototype: Wiktionary
  9. prototype: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prototype: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prototype: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prototype, prototype: Dictionary.com
  13. prototype: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prototype: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PROTOTYPE, Prototype (Bodies Without Organs album), Prototype (George Lopez), Prototype (Jeff Lorber album), Prototype (Wildstorm), Prototype (band), Prototype (company), Prototype (disambiguation), Prototype (linguistics), Prototype (series), Prototype (video game), Prototype, The Prototype: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prototype: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prototype: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prototype: Rhymezone
  19. prototype, prototype (het), prototype (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prototype: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prototype: Free Dictionary
  22. prototype: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prototype: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. prototype: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prototype: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. prototype: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prototype: Game Dictionary
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. prototype: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prototype: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prototype: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
noun:  An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
noun:  (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
noun:  (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To create a prototype of.

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