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LWSS

LWSS is the initialism 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

Forms of LWSS

pluralLWSSs
pluralLWSSes

Questions about LWSS

What is LWSS the initialism of?
LWSS is the initialism of lightweight spaceship.

Words near LWSS in the dictionary

  1. LWP
  2. LWPs
  3. LWR
  4. LWRs
  5. LWS
  6. LWSS
  7. LWSSes
  8. LWSSs
  9. LWT
  10. LWTs
  11. LWUIT

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LWSS (page history and authors); lightweight spaceship (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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