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===''Model'' in specific contexts=== As a noun, ''model'' has specific meanings in certain fields, derived from its original meaning of "structural [[design]] or [[Layout (disambiguation)|layout]]": * [[Model (art)]], a person posing for an artist, e.g. a 15th-century criminal representing the biblical Judas in Leonardo da Vinci's painting [[The Last Supper (Leonardo)|''The Last Supper'']] * [[Model (person)]], a person who serves as a template for others to copy, as in a [[role model]], often in the context of advertising commercial products; e.g. the first ''fashion model'', Marie Vernet Worth in 1853, wife of designer [[Charles Frederick Worth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.modelworker.com/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017020950/http://www.modelworker.com/history.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-10-17|title=modelworker.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Fabulous faces of fashion: A century of modelling|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/fabulous-faces-of-fashion-a--century-of-modelling-1678417.html|date=4 May 2009|author=Walker, Harriet|journal=The Independent|access-date=2017-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528025946/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/fabulous-faces-of-fashion-a--century-of-modelling-1678417.html|archive-date=2011-05-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Model (product)]], a particular design of a product as displayed in a catalogue or show room (e.g. [[Ford Model T]], an early [[car model]]) * [[Model organism|Model (organism)]] a non-human species that is studied to understand biological phenomena in other organisms, e.g. a guinea pig starved of vitamin C to study scurvy, an experiment that would be immoral to conduct on a person * [[Model (mimicry)]], a species that is mimicked by another species * [[Model (logic)]], a structure (a set of items, such as natural numbers 1, 2, 3,..., along with mathematical operations such as addition and multiplication, and relations, such as <math><</math>) that satisfies a given system of [[axiom]]s (basic truisms), i.e. that satisfies the statements of a given [[Theory_(mathematical_logic)|theory]]<ref>Chang and Keisler, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uiHq0EmaFp0C&pg=PA1 p. 1]</ref> * [[Model (CGI)]], a mathematical representation of any surface of an object in three dimensions via specialized software * [[Model (MVC)]], the information-representing internal component of a software, as distinct from its user interface
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