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Mockup vs. Prototype — What's the Difference?

Mockup vs. Prototype — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mockup and Prototype

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Mockup

In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes. A mockup may be a prototype if it provides at least part of the functionality of a system and enables testing of a design.

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.

Mockup

A usually full-sized scale model of a structure, used for demonstration, study, or testing.

Prototype

An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard
"The abolitionists were the prototype of modern citizen activism" (Adam Hochschild).

Mockup

A layout of printed matter or digital content.
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Prototype

An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.

Mockup

Alternative spelling of mock-up.

Prototype

A typical example of a class or category
"He fit the prototype of the artist as social misfit and compulsive contrarian" (Stephen Holden).

Prototype

To make a prototype of (a product).

Prototype

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

Prototype

An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.

Prototype

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

Prototype

(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.

Prototype

(motorsport) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Prototype

(transitive) To create a prototype of.

Prototype

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.
They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype.

Prototype

A standard or typical example;
He is the prototype of good breeding
He provided America with an image of the good father

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