Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glider gun

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: glid-er -gun
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.

Example Sentences

"But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return."
"Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger."
"In particular, since those two patterns extend their repetitions endlessly to the left and right, there is no need for a "glider gun" to provide a continuous supply of new patterns, as you suggest."

Inflected Forms

glider guns (plural)

Questions

What does glider gun mean?: In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.

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