A prototype is something that is representative of a category of things.
Prototype may also refer to:
- Aircraft
- Milestone (aircraft), an initial design produced in limited numbers before committing to large scale production of an aircraft
- Automobiles
- Citroën Prototype C, a range of vehicles created by Citroën from 1955 to 1956
- Citroën Prototype Y, a project of replacement of the Citroën Ami studied by Citroën in the early seventies
- Le Mans Prototype, a class of sports car racing vehicles specifically designed for endurance racing
- Business
- Computer science
- in software engineering:
- a prototype is an incomplete version of software, built so users can experience some of the proposed features or properties; see software prototyping
- in programming:
- Function prototype, a declaration of a function that omits the function body but does specify the function's name, arity, and argument types
prototype, an object of all native JavaScript objects that allows programmers to extend JavaScript's capabilities- Prototype JavaScript Framework, a JavaScript library for the creation of Ajax applications
- Prototype-based programming, a style of object-oriented programming in which classes are not present
- Prototype pattern, a design pattern similar to the factory method pattern
- Music
- Science fiction television
- Video games
- Other fields
- "The Prototype", a ring name of professional wrestler John Cena
- Prototype theory, a model of graded categorization in Cognitive Science
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