Urbild — meaning in English

English meaning

• archetype noun An original pattern or model that other similar things are based on or compared to.
• exemplar noun A person or thing so good that others should copy them.

Senses

Urbild is used for these senses in English:

• archetype An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]
• exemplar Something typical or representative; an example that typifies its class.
• preimage (mathematics) For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ−1(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.

exemplar — full definition

1. noun A person or thing so good that others should copy them.
2. noun A single case that shows the typical features of its class.
3. noun An original model that later versions are based on.
4. noun A well-known case used to show how a scientific theory works in practice.

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