1. an original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard for later stages.
2. an original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
3. an early, typical example.
4. biology A form or species that serves as an original type or example.

1. an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations
2. an early sample or model built to test a concept or process
3. an instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
4. A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters but none of the body, or actual code.
5. to create a prototype of.

1. an original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.

1. A primitive form; an original or model after which anything is formed; the pattern of anything to be engraved, cast, etc.; an exemplar; an archetype; especially, in metrology, an original standard, to which others must conform, and which, though it may be imitated from something else, is not required to conform to anything else, but itself serves as the ultimate definition of a unit.

1. a standard or typical example