Blueprint vs. Prototype

Blueprintnoun

A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

Blueprintnoun

A print produced with this process.

Blueprintnoun

A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

Blueprintnoun

Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Blueprintverb

To make a blueprint for.

Blueprintverb

To make a detailed operational plan for.

Blueprint

See under Print.

Blueprintnoun

something intended as a guide for making something else;

Blueprintnoun

photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

Blueprintverb

make a blueprint of

Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.

Prototypenoun

An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.

Prototypenoun

An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.

Prototypenoun

(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.

Prototypenoun

(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.

Prototypeverb

(transitive) To create a prototype of.

Prototypenoun

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.

Prototypenoun

a standard or typical example;

Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming.