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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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