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middleweight spaceships

middleweight spaceships is the plural of middleweight spaceship.

Meaning of middleweight spaceship

Noun

middleweight spaceship (plural middleweight spaceships)

  1. A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the second 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)

Questions about middleweight spaceships

What is middleweight spaceships the plural of?
Middleweight spaceships is the plural of middleweight spaceship.

Words near middleweight spaceships in the dictionary

  1. middlewares
  2. middleway
  3. middleways
  4. middleweight
  5. middleweight spaceship
  6. middleweight spaceships
  7. middleweights
  8. Middlewich
  9. middlewise
  10. middlewoman
  11. middlewomen

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