OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6822

prototype

/ˈpɹəʊtətaɪp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
prototipo
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
Only one manuscript of Plautus seems to have escaped the general wreck of ancient literature; and it served as the prototype to all the manuscripts at present extant.
The making of the new prototypes of the metre and the kilogramme, the tracing of the metres, the comparison of the new prototypes with those of the Archives, as well as the constru…
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