Model

/ˈmɒd.l̩/ · noun

Meaning

A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
2. A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
3. A representation of a physical object.
4. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
5. A style, type, or design.
6. The structural design of a complex system.
7. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
8. (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.

Example Sentences

Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.

The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.

The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.

The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom.

I had my father’s signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.

You have here the models of ſeveral ancient Temples, though the Temples themſelves, and the Gods that vvere vvorſhipped in them, are periſhed many hundred years ago.

machine learning model

The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.

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• models
• modell
• modeling
• modelling
• modeled
• modelled

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