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US
/ˈpɹoʊtə/
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ADJECTIVE
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indicating the first or earliest or original
`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages
How To Use proto In A Sentence
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
- The Syracuse group is developing prototypes of software technologies which will accelerate the take-up of general purpose parallel computing.
- The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
- Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated. Chapter 11
- … Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae. Modern Science in the Bible
- And of course the guests and limpets also had to be depilated, washed, and have their hair dressed in an order dictated by protocol. Wildfire
- The following data on the electric conductance of F 0 were obtained in the presence of myxothiazol, to avoid the complications caused by the electrogenic and proton pumping activity of bc 1.
- This table is comparable to the adjacency database used by OSPF. There is a neighbor table for each protocol that EIGRP supports.
- Greek weekly "Proto Thema", an unregretted and shameless Akin stated that he killed Solomou and would do it again if needed. OpEdNews - Diary: Murdering Peace in Derynia
- The note in question is a Japanese 1,000 yen bill that was probably a prototype of a new high-tech banknote.