Rudiment vs Prototype - What's the difference?
rudiment | prototype |
A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
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.
As nouns the difference between rudiment and prototype
is that rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural) while prototype is an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations.As a verb prototype is
to create a prototype of.rudiment
English
(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
Hypernyms
* (biology) vestigialityDerived terms
* rudimental * rudimentaryExternal links
* * * ----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.
