Definition of "android" []

• Possessing human features. (adjective)
• An automaton that is created from biological materials and resembles a human. Also called humanoid. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My Tracks on the android is a fantastic (and free) app for recording your jogging/walking/biking routes that includes uploading of stats and route to google docs – highly recommended."
• "If the android is an utterly familiar trope, or rationalised to the most rigorous degree, or both, surely it can't continue to function as a novum."
• "Furthermore, android is the correct term for a masculine robot and gynoid is the term for a feminine robot."