(animation, of a cartoon character) Deviating from the original source material or model sheets.

The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were made painstakingly by hand.

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.

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.

(idiomatic) Recently designed or fabricated; new.

plural of scientific model

An exemplary solution to an exercise provided for checking one's own solution against.

(bodybuilding) A good-looking person (usually a man) with a well-developed physique who is paid as a model to demonstrate exercises or related equipment.

An abstract mathematical representation of a process, device or concept; it uses a number of variables to represent inputs, outputs and internal states, and sets of equations and inequalities to describe their interaction.