Also: Rep, skin job (slang): Off-world uses: Combat, high risk industrial, deep-space probe. See also ROBOT (antique): ANDROID (obsolete): NEXUS (generic): Synthetic human with Paraphysical capabilities, having skin/flesh culture. Developed for emigration program.Webster's Dictionary, New International (2012)A different definition can be found at the head of the Workprint, in lieu of the credit scroll from all other versions: REPLICANT\rep'~li~cant\n. REPLICANT, constructed of skin/flesh culture.
Used in space to explore inhospitable environments. Electronic relay units and positronic brains. early version utilized for work too boring, dangerous or unpleasant for humans. The following definition appears in the Blade Runner shooting script and the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film: android (an'droid) n, Gk. However, these slight movements are too small to be noticed normally, and thus only somebody participating in the test with the appropriate machines magnifying their eye motion could see them- thus the test was necessary. The characters in the film cannot spot replicants simply by looking at their eyes normally- the glow that they sometimes display, Ridley Scott has explained, was put in purely for the audience, as a way of telling whether a character is or is not a replicant (although, he clarified, he seldom did it unless the character's true nature had been revealed already by other means.) He also added the glow as a way of drawing the audience's attention to eyes in the film, which he labelled as being a key motif.However, the Voigt-Kampff test itself uses eye motion as a way of discerning whether the participants feel empathy- if pupil fluctuation and the involuntary dilation of the iris are akin to those found in humans, the people doing the test are classified as human, whereas if they are not, they are found to be replicant.