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Plural of puffer

regular plural

The plural of puffer is puffers.

Forms of puffer

Singularpuffer /ˈpʌfɚ/
Pluralpuffers
Countablecountable

Puffers in a sentence

  • The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133
  • This might be tamed someday to form glider guns or puffers, as the B-heptomino in Life has been.1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 3/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry B-heptomino

Meaning of puffer

  1. noun Someone or something that puffs.
  2. noun Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
  3. noun A manually-operated inhaler.

Full definition of puffer

Questions about the plural of puffer

What is the plural of puffer?
The plural of puffer is puffers.
Is puffer countable?
Puffer is a countable noun.

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