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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
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Prototype VS archetype

What is the difference between prototype and archetype?
  

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Hi, What is the difference between prototype and archetype? Look in your dictionary for details. Here are a couple of subjective comments.

  • Hi, What is the difference between prototype and archetype?
  • Look in your dictionary for details.
  • Here are a couple of subjective comments.
  • archetype - Often relates to how we think of something in a fundamental and subconscious way.
  • prototype - A preliminary version of something.
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Hi,

What is the difference between prototype and archetype?

Look in your dictionary for details. Here are a couple of subjective comments.



archetype - Often relates to how we think of something in a fundamental and subconscious way.



prototype - A preliminary version of something.



Clive
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An Archetype is the ideal form of something (e.g., Jessica Alba is an archetypal beauty).
A Prototype is an early form (e.g., the Guttenberg Press was a prototype) or a fully scale, working model of a new product (e.g., the first F1-11 was a prototype jet fighter).
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What do you mean by the word 'scale' in your sentence?

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