Word.ws English Dictionary

pi-heptomino

pi-heptomino noun: a particular symmetric seven-cell methuselah in Conway's Game of Life.

Noun

pi-heptomino (plural pi-heptominoes)

  1. A particular symmetric seven-cell methuselah in Conway's Game of Life.
    • A growing spaceship which uses the pi-heptomino.1993 March 16, David Bell, “Life program (part 14/18)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
    • It does include a pseudo-spaceship based on the Pi-heptomino (pseudo because it needs some classic spaceships in front, and so the middle gets longer and longer.1995 March 30, John Harper, “Life - has anybody found....”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Forms of pi-heptomino

pluralpi-heptominoes

Questions about pi-heptomino

What does pi-heptomino mean?
Pi-heptomino means a particular symmetric seven-cell methuselah in Conway's Game of Life.
What part of speech is pi-heptomino?
Pi-heptomino is a noun.
What is the plural of pi-heptomino?
The plural of pi-heptomino is pi-heptominoes.

Words near pi-heptomino in the dictionary

  1. pi plus
  2. pi pluses
  3. pi sai
  4. pi-dog
  5. pi-dogs
  6. pi-heptomino
  7. pi-heptominoes
  8. pi-jaw
  9. pi-minus
  10. pi-minus meson
  11. pi-minuses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pi-heptomino (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pi-heptomino.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pi-heptomino. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.