Definition of prototypes:
(n) :
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
(n) :
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
(n) :
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
(n) :
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
(n) :
(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.
(v) :
(transitive) To create a prototype of.