android

The word “android” means a robot built to look and move like a human. In plain terms, either a humanlike robot in fiction, or the Google-made operating system that competes with Apple's iOS.

“Android” is pronounced AN-droyd (/ˈænˌdɹɔɪd/ in IPA).

Here is “android” used in a sentence: “The film features an android that can pass for a real person.”

Depending on how it is used, “android” can be a noun and a name.

The word “android” comes from New Latin. From New Latin androides, built from Greek andros ("man") plus a suffix meaning "form" or "shape" — literally "man-shaped.".

“Android” is a fairly common word in modern English.

“Android” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a robot built to look and move like a human.

'Robot' is the broad term for any machine that can carry out tasks automatically, and most robots look nothing like people. An android is a specific type of robot deliberately built to resemble a human in appearance and movement. So every android is a robot, but very few robots are androids.

'Android' is the precise term for a robot made to look and move like a human. 'Droid' is an informal, shortened word for robot popularised by science fiction, especially Star Wars, and it doesn't imply a human form. A droid can be any shape, while an android is specifically humanlike.

An android is entirely artificial, a machine designed to look human. A cyborg, by contrast, is part living organism and part machine, such as a person fitted with mechanical or electronic body parts. The key difference is that androids are fully built, whereas cyborgs begin as living beings.