prototypical
Speech parts
1. prototypical - Adjective
2. prototypical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
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Examples
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
archetypal patterns
she was the prototypal student activist
"Abstraction of prototypical information by adults and 10-month-old infants."
A prototypical example of an algorithm is Euclid's algorithm to determine the maximum common divisor of two integers; an example (there are others) is described by the flow chart above and as an example in a later section.