Prototype vs. Singleton — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prototype and Singleton
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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.
Singleton
A child or animal born as a single birth, especially in contrast to one that is part of a multiple birth.
Prototype
An original type, form, or instance serving as a basis or standard
"The abolitionists were the prototype of modern citizen activism" (Adam Hochschild).
Singleton
A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a player's hand.
Prototype
An original, full-scale, and usually working model of a new product or new version of an existing product.
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Singleton
An unmarried person.
Prototype
A typical example of a class or category
"He fit the prototype of the artist as social misfit and compulsive contrarian" (Stephen Holden).
Singleton
(Linguistics) A nongeminate consonant.
Prototype
To make a prototype of (a product).
Singleton
An individual separated or distinguished from two or more of its group.
Prototype
An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
Singleton
(playing cards) A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
Prototype
An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
The prototype had loose wires and rough edges, but it worked.
Singleton
(playing cards) A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
Prototype
(computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
Singleton
A single object, especially one of a group.
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.
Singleton
(computing) A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
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.
Singleton
(mathematics) A set with exactly one element.
Prototype
(transitive) To create a prototype of.
Singleton
A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
Singleton preterm birth
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.
Singleton
A person without a romantic partner.
Prototype
A standard or typical example;
He is the prototype of good breeding
He provided America with an image of the good father
Singleton
A person without a dissociative identity.
Singleton
(phonetics) A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
Singleton sonorants
Singleton
In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
Singleton
A single object (as distinguished from a pair)
Singleton
A set containing a single member
Singleton
The playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt
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