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Dioid vs Droid - What's the difference?

dioid | droid |

As nouns the difference between dioid and droid

is that dioid is (math) an idempotent semiring while droid is a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

dioid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (math) An idempotent semiring.

    • droid

    English

    (wikipedia droid)

    Alternative forms

    * 'droid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1952 , date = July , first = Mari , last = Wolf , authorlink = , title = Robots of the World! Arise! , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611 , magazine = , volume = 1 , issue = 3 , page = 76 , passage = It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids , all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them. }}
  • * 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:
    • “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.
  • * 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:
    • The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.

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    * (English Citations of "droid")

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    * * English terms derived from fiction