noun🔗ShareAn original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models."The teacher showed the class a prototype of a new type of robot for their science project. "technologytechnicalscienceindustrymachineitemdevicetoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn early sample or model built to test a concept or process."The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked."technologytechnicalmachineprocessindustrytoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code."The C++ header file contains the prototype for the calculateSum function, which tells the compiler the function's name, that it returns an integer, and that it accepts two integer inputs, but not how the sum is actually computed. "computingtechnicalfunctiontechnologytoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes."A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not."technologysciencetypetechnicalmachinedevicetoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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."The team spent months designing and building the prototype, hoping its speed would win the 24-hour race. "vehiclesportracemachinetechnicalindustrytoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo create a prototype of."The engineering students will prototype a new water filter design this semester. "technologytechnicalindustrysciencemachinetoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading