Prototype vs Exemplar - What's the difference?
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An original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process
(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters but none of the body, or actual code.
To create a prototype of.
Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
A role model.
Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
A well known usage of a scientific theory.
A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
A copy of a book or writing.
(obsolete) Exemplary.
*, II.8:
*:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
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As nouns the difference between prototype and exemplar
is that prototype is an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations while exemplar is something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.As a verb prototype
is to create a prototype of.As an adjective exemplar is
exemplary.prototype
English
(wikipedia prototype)Noun
(en noun)- The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.
- A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* prototype theoryVerb
(prototyp)exemplar
English
(wikipedia exemplar)Etymology 1
From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.Noun
(en noun)- (Udall)
