Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

middleweight spaceship

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables: mid-dleweight s-pace-ship
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A particular orthogonal spaceship in Conway's Game of Life, and the second 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 trailing middleweight spaceships convert the spark into a pair of pi-heptominos, which start the line of blinkers burning again, while leaving behind a pair of blocks."
"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

middleweight spaceships (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

lightweight spaceship oblique spaceship

Questions

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

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