replicant

[ rep-li-kuhnt ]

noun
  1. (in science fiction) a robot or other artificial being in the form of a human or other creature.

Origin of replicant

1
First recorded in 1620–30; current sense was coined by David Peoples, U.S. screenwriter (born 1940), for the film Blade Runner (1982); from Late Latin replicant-, stem of present participle replicāns, from replicāre “to fold back”; see origin at re-, ply2, -ant

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