The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

The term " android " appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

Authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg.

which inspired Blade Runner used the term android ( andy ), but director Ridley Scott wanted a new term that did not have preconceptions.

Mostly created for Star Wars by Special Effects worker John Stears, the term is a clipped form of android.

As per this definition of the term, fictional android Gigolo Joe, played by Jude Law in the 2001 science-fiction film A. I.

In the original Mega Man series, the term " Robot Master " refers to a special kind of robot or android that possesses a very advanced level of artificial intelligence.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

When used in the broader sense, the term can include many different groups.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

* The modern term " style " has a bearing on how material items such as pottery or architecture can be interpreted.

The term may also refer to the physical region where the electron can be calculated to be, as defined by the particular mathematical form of the orbital.

Use of the word " artiste " can also be a pejorative term.

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

However, this is not required ; endothermic reactions can proceed spontaneously if the TΔS term is large enough.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

In English, the term Arabic numerals can be ambiguous.

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.

Today anyone can use the term " Arbor Day " as well as hold their own Arbor Day celebration.

Here the term yoga denotes a kind of " meta-theory " that can be used heuristically ; Michel Raynaud writes the other terms " Ariadne's thread " and " philosophy " as effective equivalents.

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

The term Assyria can also refer to the geographic region or heartland where Assyria, its empires and the Assyrian people were centred.

Similarly, intuitionists object to the existence property for classical logic, where one can prove, without being able to produce any term of which holds.

The term can trace its origin to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan when millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan and Iran.

The Greek term can mean either "( inflection ) for something caused " or " for an accusation ".

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

What does it mean to be creative, a term we hear with increasing frequency these days??

As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.

The term " logic " he reserved to mean dialectics.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

The term is also used, especially in the description of algorithms, to mean associative array or " abstract array ", a theoretical computer science model ( an abstract data type or ADT ) intended to capture the essential properties of arrays.

It is this latter version, which has some syntax differences from the first as well as support for the Apple II high-resolution graphics modes, that most people mean by the term " Applesoft.

How best to define the term “ art ” is a subject of constant contention ; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term “ art ”.

In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing.

" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

The term " black-letter law " is also used commonly in the American legal system to mean well-established case law.

In common terminology, the term " at bat " is sometimes used to mean " plate appearance " ( for example, " he fouled off the ball to keep the at bat alive ").

The first syllable of the term bretwalda may be related to ' Briton ' or ' Britain ' and would thus mean ' sovereign of Britain ' or ' wielder of Britain '.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

At the same time, however, he can use this term to mean the glorious future destiny of a truly comprehensive " Israel ".

In some countries, the term bean can mean a host of different species.

Adam of Bremen was the first writer to use the term Baltic in its modern sense to mean the sea of that name.