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android|ˈændrɔɪd|
[f. mod.L. androīdes (also used), f. Gr. ἀνδρο- man + -εἰδης -like: see -oid.]
An automaton resembling a human being. Also attrib.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., Albertus Magnus is recorded as having made a famous androides. 1819Pantolog. s.v., M. de Kempelen..constructed an androides capable of playing at chess. 1847Craig, Android. 1951C. Simak Time & Again (1956) i. 1 Human gossip as well as android and robot gossip. 1958Spectator 19 Sept. 379/1 Today SF must be more than a blood-and-sex day⁓dream spattered with words like androids (robots made of flesh and bone).
Add:B. adj. a. Resembling a human being, esp. a man. rare. b. Anat. Esp. of a pelvis: resembling that of a man.
1886Webster Suppl. 1541/3 Android, a., resembling a man. 1933Caldwell & Moloy in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. XXVI. 490 The Android Type... These female pelves bear a resemblance to the male sex of man. 1936H. J. Stander J. W. Williams's Obstetrics. (ed. 7) i. 18 Caldwell and Moloy..divided the female pelvis into four large groups on the basis of morphology. The first group is the normal female or ‘gynecoid’ pelvis, the second the male or ‘android’, the third the ‘anthropoid’, resembling the pelvic form of the great apes, and the fourth group the simple flat or ‘platypelloid’ pelvis. 1982E. L. Safford Handbk. Adv. Robots i. 28 Android types are hobbyists' toys right now. 1989Times 12 Oct. 18/3 The incidence of android pelvises—a triangular, smaller pelvis—is higher for some reason among tall women than short. 1989Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. XVIII. 368/1 In diabetics a male type of subcutaneous fat pattern, called android or upper body obesity, was found more often than a female type. |