different between replicant vs replicator

English

Etymology

From Latin replic?ns, present participle of replic?. The science fiction sense was coined by David Peoples in the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Adjective

replicant (comparative more replicant, superlative most replicant)

1. replicative

Noun

replicant (plural replicants)

1. (science fiction) A robot or artificial being that is an exact copy of a genuine lifeform, especially a human.
2. (archaic) One who replies.

Catalan

Verb

replicant

1. present participle of replicar

Latin

Verb

replicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of replic?

English

Etymology

replicate +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• Hyphenation: rep?li?ca?tor

Noun

replicator (plural replicators)

1. Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme.
2. (science fiction) A technological device that replicates physical objects.
   • 2001 Greg Cox The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, ?ISBN, page 76

     Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

   • 2001 Judith Barad, Ed Robertson The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, ?ISBN, page 74

     either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.

   • 2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, ?ISBN, pages 301-302

     The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

Related terms

• replica
• replicant
• replicate
• replication
• replicative
• replicatory
• reply

Translations

Further reading

• replicator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• replicator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

replic?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of replic?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of replic?