heavyweight spaceship
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English
45
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the third smallest such example.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The usual non-glider suspects from Conway's Life (lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight spaceships) all fail here due to central 7-neighbor OFF cells."
Inflected Forms
heavyweight spaceships (plural)