android
(ˈændrɔɪd)
[f. mod.L. androīdes (also used), f. Gr. ἀνδρο- man + -εἰδης -like: see -oid.]
An automaton resembling a human being. Also attrib.
| 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Albertus Magnus is recorded as having made a famous androides. 1819 Pantolog. s.v., M. de Kempelen..constructed an androides capable of playing at chess. 1847 Craig, Android. 1951 C. Simak Time & Again (1956) i. 1 Human gossip as well as android and robot gossip. 1958 Spectator 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). |
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Add: B. adj. a. Resembling a human being, esp. a man. rare. b. Anat. Esp. of a pelvis: resembling that of a man.
| 1886 Webster Suppl. 1541/3 Android, a., resembling a man. 1933 Caldwell & Moloy in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. XXVI. 490 The Android Type... These female pelves bear a resemblance to the male sex of man. 1936 H. 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. 1982 E. L. Safford Handbk. Adv. Robots i. 28 Android types are hobbyists' toys right now. 1989 Times 12 Oct. 18/3 The incidence of android pelvises—a triangular, smaller pelvis—is higher for some reason among tall women than short. 1989 Internat. 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. |