Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lightweight spaceship

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: lightweight s-pace-ship
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the 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."
"It's a reaction between a glider and a lightweight spaceship spark, nondestructive to the spaceship (so it can be used in puffers):"
"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

lightweight spaceships (plural)

Phrases

middleweight spaceship

Frequently Paired Words

middleweight spaceship oblique spaceship

Synonyms

LWSS

Questions

What does lightweight spaceship mean?: A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the smallest such example.

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