Full definition of spaceship
Noun
- A vehicle that flies through space.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- 2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance (page 433)We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
- 2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata (page 126)Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move...
- (computing, programming) The operator
<=> in the Perl programming language, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second. - 2012, Randal Schwartz, ‎Brian Foy, ‎Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl (page 142)If we reverse the positions of
$a and
$b, the
spaceship will sort in the opposite order...
