model
905
3.9
- noun
- /ˈmɒdəl/
- Specialized
:
modelo
- The architect created a scale model of the new building to show the city council.
- use models
- develop models
- test models
Before me on this table are models of lots of chemicals.
- Before me on this table are models of lots of chemicals.
- I don't think we want to use symbolic models as they've been used.
- We're going to immerse the whole model building in a fish tank.
- So I have a model here of the brain.
- And like the real thing, the model is continually breaking down.
- Your brain has this model, it's working.
- OK, that's our model of the early universe.
- But that doesn't change the model that our visual system constructs.
- This is AAI language model similar to Open AI's GPT.
- Now, the nice thing is that Gottman's model doesn't just leave us hanging.
- I commissioned an Etsy Lego builder to make a model of our house.
Examples
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OK, that's our model of the early universe.
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Before me on this table are models of lots of chemicals.
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So this part here is the model of the plant, OK?
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I really like that model of Winter River, too.
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I designed one of the first models in that series.
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NASA has a global climate model, several in Europe.
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This is the New York Fed's model for economic growth.
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So I made this model of a wild meadow.
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Students gain deeper knowledge by building tangible models as a way of testing their ideas.
Academic text (2015) -
This is a scale model of the rooftop at your London HQ.
Synonyms
199
4.7
A model of a real situation made to study or test it, often on a computer
1
7.5
A computer model that tests how something works in different situations
A simple model used to study or test a complex system
An idea that explains how something works in science or research
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.5
Ideas, values, and ways of behaving that many people in a group share
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1
8.3
A view that Earth is at the center and the Sun and stars move around it
- Specialized
A system that pays doctors a fixed amount per patient for a set time even if they need more care
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A model that shows the inside of something by removing part of the outside
- Specialized
A computer simulation that shows how each person or thing acts and changes a whole system
How Detailed
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3.6
1
4.2
- Specialized
905
3.9
- Specialized
10
4.8
150
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Model comes from the Latin modulus, meaning 'a small measure' or 'pattern', so a model is a smaller or simpler copy people make to show, study, or test a bigger thing.