model

Definitions

• A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
• A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
• A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
• A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
• A style, type, or design.
• The structural design of a complex system.
• A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
• (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
• (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
• (medicine) An animal that is used to study a human disease or pathology.
• Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
• (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.