The lingo of the word Prototype

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• Prototype:
  1. Full-scale working model of something built for study, testing or display
  
  2. A standard or typical example

There is a few ways to look at the definition of a prototype. The one most of us are use to using is the first one, that being a full-size model built specifically as the first example of what the others will be like. The one that I think applies to how we look at it is the second one, that being a standard or example that we use to model by. So we can use any object and try to make a model true to that example, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the same size.