DIMENSIONS: EVALUATION / Perspective
R E F E R E N C E S
Prototype n. 1. the original or model on which something is based or formed. 2. someone or something that serves as an example of its ki nd. 3. something analogous to another thing of a later period. 4. Biol. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group. [< NL prótotyp(on) < GK, n. use of neut. of prótótypos original.
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
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