The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replicant \Rep"li*cant\ (r?p"l?-kant), n. One who replies.
Wiktionary
a. replicative n. 1 (context science fiction English) An exact copy of a specific human, or is indistinguishable from a human (usually an android). 2 (context archaic English) One who reply.
Wikipedia
A replicant is a fictional bioengineered or biorobotic android in the film Blade Runner (1982), The Nexus series of replicants are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model. Because of their similarity to humans, a replicant can only be detected by means of the fictional Voight-Kampff test, in which emotional responses are provoked; replicants' responses differ from humans' responses. NEXUS 6 replicants also have a safety mechanism, namely a four-year lifespan, to prevent them from developing empathic cognition and therefore immunity to a Voight-Kampff machine. A derogatory term for a replicant is "skin-job."
Replicant is a 2001 American science fiction action film directed by Ringo Lam, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Michael Rooker. It is the second collaboration between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hong Kong film director Ringo Lam, and the fifth time that Van Damme has starred in a dual role. The film had a limited theatrical release in many European countries, and was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on September 18, 2001.
Replicant is a free and open source operating system based on the Android mobile platform, which aims to replace all proprietary Android components with their free software counterparts. This also makes it a security focused operating system as it closes discovered Android backdoors. It is available for several smartphones and tablet computers.
The name Replicant is drawn from the fictional replicant androids in the Blade Runner movie. Replicant is sponsored and supported by the Free Software Foundation.
Replicant may refer to:
- Replicant, characters from the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner
- Replicant (film), 2001 film by Ringo Lam
- Replicants (band), American rock band
- Replicant, Desktop Widgets found in the Haiku operating system
- Replicant (operating system), a fully free Android distribution
- Alexandre Azaria (also known by the alias Replicant), a French composer, guitarist and film soundtrack writer
Usage examples of "replicant".
Where-Are-They-Now and Threats carried stories of worse tragedies: planets kneedeep in replicant goo, races turned brainless by badly programmed immune systems.
What if I said I could change all that What if I said that I had a miniature shotgun that blasts gene fragments into the cells of living organisms, altering their genetic matrices so that a monozygotic replicant would no longer be a monozygotic replicant and she could then make love to a muscleman without transgressing the incest taboo, I say, opening my shirt and exposing the device which I had stuck in the waistband of my black jeans.
I understand that the Mages were real big on using genetic replicants for intelligence work.
None of us have any information concerning stasis boxes or replicants, in any combination.
Maybe Pris had managed to convince other human beings that she was a replicant, and had served time along with a Rachael model in a sanctioned military brothel.
When Pris, on the run with the escaped replicants she had thought she was one of, had disguised herself as one of Sebastian’s mechanical creations, a leotarded bridal doll with a veil draped over her strawlike hair, she had finally achieved the nonhuman apotheosis her cracked brain had been seeking all along.
Deckard had already wimped out and quit the force back then, mainly out of chickenshit queasiness over blowing away defenseless replicants .