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Humanoid vs Android - What's the difference?

humanoid | android |

As adjectives the difference between humanoid and android

is that humanoid is having the appearance or characteristics of a human while android is possessing human qualities.

As nouns the difference between humanoid and android

is that humanoid is a being having the appearance or characteristics of a human while android is a robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male.

As a proper noun Android is

a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google.

humanoid

English

(wikipedia humanoid)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

    • See also

    * anthropoid

    android

    English

    (wikipedia android)

    Alternative forms

    * androides (dated)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male)

    • Derived terms

    * droid

    Hypernyms

    * robot

    Hyponyms

    * gynoid, fembot

    See also

    * cyborg

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Possessing human qualities

    • Anagrams

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