prototype

A prototype (sense 2) of a “lift system” or flying machine for an individual person

Meanings

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

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek πρωτότυπος ("original; prototype"), from πρωτο- (from πρῶτος) + τῠ́πος (from τύπτω, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ("to push; to stick")). The word is analysable as proto- + -type.

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