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1. A small object, usually built to scale, which represents in detail another, often larger object.
2. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: "The artist had his clay model ready for casting."
3. A work or construction used for testing or perfecting a final product: "The car company had a test model of a solar-powered vehicle."
4. A style or design of an something:"His current car is last year's model."
5. An example that is supposed to be imitated or compared: "Her behavior is a model of decorum."
6. Someone who serves as the subject for an artist; especially, a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.
7. A person who is employed to display merchandise; such as, clothing, cosmetics, etc.
8. Etymology: in the 1570's, "an architect's set of designs"; from Middle French modelle then from modern French modèle; from Italian modello, "a model, mold"; from Vulgar Latin modellus, from Latin modulus, "measure, standard" and modus, "manner, measure".
2. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: "The artist had his clay model ready for casting."
3. A work or construction used for testing or perfecting a final product: "The car company had a test model of a solar-powered vehicle."
4. A style or design of an something:"His current car is last year's model."
5. An example that is supposed to be imitated or compared: "Her behavior is a model of decorum."
6. Someone who serves as the subject for an artist; especially, a person employed to pose for a painter, sculptor, or photographer.
7. A person who is employed to display merchandise; such as, clothing, cosmetics, etc.
8. Etymology: in the 1570's, "an architect's set of designs"; from Middle French modelle then from modern French modèle; from Italian modello, "a model, mold"; from Vulgar Latin modellus, from Latin modulus, "measure, standard" and modus, "manner, measure".
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(Greek: idea, form, appearance; class, species, model; general principle)
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electrolytic model, gelatin model, oil-field model, potentiometric model
1. A laboratory-model simulation of steady-state fluid flow through porous media found in a reservoir.
2. A laboratory simulation of steady-state fluid flow through porous reservoir media.
2. A laboratory simulation of steady-state fluid flow through porous reservoir media.
It depends on the mobility of ions in absorbent media (gelatin or blotter), or through a liquid (potentiometric technique which is a device used to make a precise determination of the electromotive force, or maximum output voltage, of a cell or generator by comparing it with a known voltage).
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semantic network model
A theory of the configuration of long-term memory, proposing that material is stored as independent units; such as, words, symbols, or concepts, which are then connected to one another.
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semeio-, sema-, semato-, semat-, semasio-, semio-, -semic, -semia
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stochastic model
A mathematical model that contains uncertainties or random variables.
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ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility
American Bar Association standards of behavior, which are voluntary and intended as self-regulating for lawyer conduct in the courtroom and between lawyers and clients.
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individualistic model
The hypothetical system in which individuals judge others to be kin or non-kin according to whether they possess certain alleles (members of a pair or series of genes that occupy a specific position on a specific chromosome) which encode a particular recognition label.
The alleles may be recognition alleles in the strict sense, controlling both the production of the pheromone and its perception, or they may prescribe a less direct phenotype matching system.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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