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Spaceship
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 A manned vehicle that flies through space.
- 2 a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) wordnet
- 3 A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
"The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells."
- 4 The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
"If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order[…]"
- 5 A computer. slang
Etymology
* space + ship * (programming operator): From its resemblance to the shape of a flying saucer.
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