1 a photographic print of a plan for a building or a machine, with white lines on a blue background:
blueprints of a new aircraft
2 ~ (for sth) a plan which shows what can be achieved and how it can be achieved:
a blueprint for the privatization of health care
3 (technical) the pattern in every living cell, which decides how the plant, animal or person will develop and what it will look like:
DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.
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