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plural spaceships
(astronautics) A vehicle that flies through space. examples
(cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position. quotations examples
The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.
1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance, page 433
Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move […]
2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 126
(programming) The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second. quotations examples
If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order […]
2012, Randal Schwartz, Brian Foy, Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl, page 142