androids
- 1Plural of android.
The lab's androids are built to read facial expressions and respond in kind.
In the novel, a colony of androids grown in vats begins to question its makers.
Note
Machines and made beings share this plural: androids can be robots designed to look and act human, or artificial humans such as a vat-grown colony in a novel. The word covers figures of any apparent sex, even though the adjective android means characteristic of men. It also counts mobile phones running the Android system, where the lowercase noun stands apart from the capitalized name.
androids is a form of android
android, noun: A robot designed to look and act like a human being, whether it resembles a man or a woman. Full entry
- Forms
- androidandroids plural
- Spelling
- android → androids: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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