Prototype vs. Replica — What's the Difference?

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.

A replica is an exact copy, such as of a painting, as it was executed by the original artist or a copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.A replica is a copying closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance. An inverted replica complements the original by filling its gaps.

An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard

A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist.

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

A copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.

A typical example of a class or category

An exact copy.

To make a prototype of (a product).

A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.

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

A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.

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

Repetition.

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

Copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

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

(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.

(transitive) To create a prototype of.

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.

A standard or typical example;