# android

Pronunciation: say "AN-droyd" /ˈænˌdɹɔɪd/

## Noun

1. A robot designed to look and act like a human being, whether it resembles a man or a woman.
   - Simple: A robot made to look and act like a person.
   - _The android's face could smile, frown and blink almost exactly like a person's._
   - _Engineers dressed the android in a lab coat and programmed her to lead tours of the robotics lab._
2. A human being made by artificial means.
   - Simple: A human being that people have made, not a natural one.
   - _The novel's android was grown from synthetic tissue and could pass any medical exam._
   - _Unlike the clanking robots of older films, the androids in the series bleed, age and dream._

## Adjective

3. Having the qualities or characteristics of a human being.
   - Simple: Having qualities that humans have.
   - _The lab's newest model is an android robot with soft skin and a face that can register surprise._
   - _Visitors found the robot receptionist's android features unsettling: the smile was right, but the blink came a beat too late._
4. Characteristic of men rather than women.
   - Simple: Like what is usual for men, not for women.
   - _Android obesity, with fat gathered around the waist, carries a higher risk of heart disease than fat stored on the hips._
   - _The scan showed an android distribution of fat, concentrated in the abdomen rather than the thighs._
5. Of a pelvis, having a narrow front segment and a heart-shaped brim, the shape typically found in males.
   - Simple: Describes a pelvis that is narrow at the front with a heart-shaped opening, as is usual in men.
   - _Pelvimetry revealed an android pelvis, so the obstetrician warned that labor might be prolonged._
   - _Anatomy students learn to tell an android pelvis by its heart-shaped inlet from the rounder type more common in women._

## Origin

A learned borrowing from New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek andrós (genitive of anḗr, "man, human") + -eidḗs (from eîdos, "form, image, shape, appearance, look"). By surface analysis, andr- + -oid.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/android (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).