Prototype Frequency

pro⋅to⋅type Pronunciation [proh-tuh-tahyp] 1. the original or model on which something is based or formed. 2. someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist. 3. something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing. 4. Biology. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group. –verb (used with object) 5. to create the protot...

pro⋅to⋅type Pronunciation [proh-tuh-tahyp] 1. the original or model on which something is based or formed. 2. someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist. 3. something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing. 4. Biology. an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group. –verb (used with object) 5. to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car. fre⋅quen⋅cy Pronunciation [free-kwuhn-see] 1. Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood. 2. Rate of occurrence: The doctor has increased the frequency of his visits. 3. Physics. a. The number of periods or regularly occurring events of any given kind in unit of time, usually in one second. b. the number of cycles or completed alternations per unit time of a wave or oscillation. Symbol: F; Abbreviation: freq. 4. Mathematics. the number of times a value recurs in a unit change of the independent variable of a given function. 5. Statistics. the number of items occurring in a given category.