android

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈænˌdɹɔɪd/

Definition of android

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A robot that is designed to look and act like a human being (not necessarily a male one).
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noun

  1. A robot that is designed to look and act like a human being (not necessarily a male one).
  2. An artificial human.
  3. A mobile phone running on Android OS.
    “Both Androids and iPhones have a timer that can delay taking a photo by up to 10 seconds.”

adj

  1. Possessing human qualities.
  2. Of the pelvis, having a narrow anterior segment and a heart-shaped brim, typically found in the male.
  3. Characteristic of men.
    “an android fat distribution”

name

  1. A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.
    “SL4A brings scripting languages to Android by allowing developers to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device, according to Google Labs.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin androides, from Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man, human”)) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, itself from εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image, shape, appearance, look”)). By surface analysis, andr- + -oid.

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