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lightweight spaceships

lightweight spaceships is the plural of lightweight spaceship.

Meaning of lightweight spaceship

Noun

lightweight spaceship (plural lightweight spaceships)

  1. A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the smallest such example.
    • To begin with and to be complete, I will list the original spaceships. These are the glider, the lightweight spaceship (LWSS), middleweight spaceship (MWSS), and the heavyweight spaceship (HWSS). These were all found very soon after Life was invented by Conway.1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    LWSS

Questions about lightweight spaceships

What is lightweight spaceships the plural of?
Lightweight spaceships is the plural of lightweight spaceship.

Words near lightweight spaceships in the dictionary

  1. lightwater
  2. lightwave
  3. lightwaves
  4. lightweight
  5. lightweight spaceship
  6. lightweight spaceships
  7. lightweighted
  8. lightweighting
  9. lightweightness
  10. lightweights
  11. lightwell

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