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Cordership

Cordership noun: a class of engineered spaceships in Conway's Game of Life based on the switch engine that move at a speed of c/12 diagonally.

Noun

Cordership (plural Corderships)

  1. A class of engineered spaceships in Conway's Game of Life based on the switch engine that move at a speed of c/12 diagonally.

Forms of Cordership

pluralCorderships

Origin of Cordership

Named after Charles Corderman, who discovered the switch engine in 1971, with ship.

Questions about Cordership

What does Cordership mean?
Cordership means a class of engineered spaceships in Conway's Game of Life based on the switch engine that move at a speed of c/12 diagonally.
What part of speech is Cordership?
Cordership is a noun.
What is the plural of Cordership?
The plural of Cordership is Corderships.

Words near Cordership in the dictionary

  1. corder
  2. Cordero
  3. corderoite
  4. Corderos
  5. corders
  6. Cordership
  7. Cordery
  8. cordfactor
  9. cordgrass
  10. cordgrasses
  11. cordiaceous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cordership (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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