A formal abstraction of a real-life system that omits less essential aspects of the system in order to make it amenable to scientific analysis.

A person who poses to display clothing, either on stage or in photographs; a model.

A person who poses to display clothing by walking along a narrow stage in front of an audience.

A low-cost, no-frills version of a merchandise item, especially where a larger selection of more lavishly equipped models of the same item exist.

plural of scientific model

The process of creating a data model.

The process of creating information model.

plural of role model

A three-dimensional copy or representation of something in which all parts have dimensions in the same proportion to that of the original.

The process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical and or mathematical models.