Meanings
plural protypes
- archetype, exemplar
We pinpoint all essential ingredients of intelligence found in spatio-temporal dynamics of nonlinear chemical systems, and show outlines of future designs and protypes of chemical intelligent "gooware".
2006, Andrew Adamatzky, “Reaction-Diffusion Reactive Wetware”, in Tamio Arai, editor, Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, IOS Press, page 3
Origin
- Koine Greekπρότυπος“serving as a model”
- Koine Greekπρότυπον“model”
- Englishprotype
From pro- + type, or else a learned borrowing from Koine Greek πρότυπον (prótupon, “model”), the nominalized neuter form of Koine Greek πρότυπος (prótupos, “serving as a model”), from πρό (pró) + τύπος (túpos).
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