Prototype vs Origin - What's the difference?
prototype | origin |
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.
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
As nouns the difference between prototype and origin
is that prototype is an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations while origin is the beginning of something.As a verb prototype
is to create a prototype of.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.
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* prototype theoryVerb
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Noun
(en noun)Sam Leith
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