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Frankenstein's monster was stitched together out of death tissue which was then reanimated, so he's not an android. More of a fancy kind of zombie (tho, with a working brain, that definition doesn't really attach well, either).

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The word "android" has not been used correctly much outside science-fiction stories written by authors who were being REALLY proper about it. There are a lot of terms that started in sci-fi that worked their way into the real world under different guises. I get annoyed every time I hear "test tube babe" used to describe in vitro fertilization. A real "test tube baby" is grown to term in an artificial womb ("test tube") not just fertilized in a petrie dish!

Oddly enough, one of the few places I have seen "android" used correctly was in an old Supergirl story, in which she creates android doubles of her parents, noting that they are not robots, but have all the organs, etc. (As a kid, this creeped me out in the the same way as did those statues Superman had made of all his friends for the Fortress of Solitude. There was something. . . disturbing about him sculpting a naked Lois to put clothes on. Something disturbing about Kara creating artificial versions of ALL her parents' body parts!)*

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* Yes, even as a kid I tended to over-think stuff!! You think I got this way overnight??

The term was coined from robota, a Czech word meaning "forced labor". The original robots, then, were in the form of human beings, tho mechanical. The term has settled, in modern times, upon any machine that does the work of a man.

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