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glider guns

glider guns is the plural of glider gun.

Meaning of glider gun

Noun

glider gun (plural glider guns)

  1. In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.
    • But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return.1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Questions about glider guns

What is glider guns the plural of?
Glider guns is the plural of glider gun.

Words near glider guns in the dictionary

  1. glideosomes
  2. glidepath
  3. glidepaths
  4. glider
  5. glider gun
  6. glider guns
  7. gliderport
  8. gliderports
  9. gliders
  10. glides
  11. glideslope

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