spacefiller
spacefiller noun: a stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example becomes available, or if the better example is prohibitively expensive.
Noun
spacefiller (plural spacefillers)
- A stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example becomes available, or if the better example is prohibitively expensive.
- A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.
- Spacefiller patterns might possibly even be within reach of current search programs; these would have much more predictable (and higher) growth rates from the start.2008 May 31, Dave Greene, “Life: B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
- Other things that can be built (I see no reason why not) are a self-replicator, quadratically growing spacefiller, programmable computer/constructor, self-growing prime number sieve.2009 December 16, Mark Jeronimus, “WireWorld Extendable 3”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
Forms of spacefiller
| plural | spacefillers |
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Origin of spacefiller
From space + filler.
Questions about spacefiller
- What does spacefiller mean?
- Spacefiller means a stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example becomes available, or if the better example is prohibitively expensive.
- What part of speech is spacefiller?
- Spacefiller is a noun.
- What is the plural of spacefiller?
- The plural of spacefiller is spacefillers.
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