spaceship
Etymology
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Etymology
- space + ship
- (programming operator) From its resemblance to the shape of a flying saucer.
spaceship (plural spaceships)
- (astronautics) A vehicle that flies through space.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- (programming) 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.- 2012, Randal Schwartz, Brian Foy, Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl, page 142:
- If we reverse the positions of
$a
and$b
, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order […]
- (vehicle) spacecraft
- French: vaisseau spatial, astronef, spationef
- German: Raumschiff, Raumfahrzeug
- Italian: nave spaziale, astronave, spazionave
- Portuguese: nave espacial, espaçonave, astronave
- Russian: косми́ческий кора́бль
- Spanish: nave espacial, astronave
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