Prototype vs Embryo - What's the difference?
prototype | embryo |
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.
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
(botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
The beginning; the first stage of anything.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 419:
As nouns the difference between prototype and embryo
is that prototype is an original object or form which is a basis for other objects, forms, or for its models and generalizations while embryo is .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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* prototype theoryVerb
(prototyp)embryo
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Alternative forms
* (plural forms) * (plural forms) * (plural forms)Noun
(en-noun)- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo .
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]