Crossword clues for spaceship
spaceship
- Enterprise, for one
- A ship that travels through outer space (especially in science fiction)
- Vessel of the future
- Manned craft — small steps with it?
- Step on board trendy futuristic craft
- Seats on stylish transport
- Flying machine, originally staggering speeds with it
- Fast transport? You'll get speed on board with it
- Astronaut's vehicle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vehicle that flies through space. 2 (context cellular automata English) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position. 3 (context computing programming English) The operator <=> in the Perl programming language, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
WordNet
n. a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) [syn: starship]
Wikipedia
In a cellular automaton, a finite pattern is called a spaceship if it reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position. The smallest such number of generations is called the period of the spaceship.
The speed of a spaceship is often expressed in terms of c, the metaphorical speed of light (one cell per generation) which in many cellular automata is the fastest that an effect can spread. For example, a glider in Conway's Game of Life is said to have a speed of c/4, as it takes four generations for a given state to be translated by one cell. Similarly, the lightweight spaceship is said to have a speed of c/2, as it takes four generations for a given state to be translated by two cells. More generally, if a spaceship in a 2D automaton is translated by (x, y) after n generations, then the speed v is defined as:
$v=\frac{\max\left(|x|,|y|\right)}{n}\,c$
This notation can be readily generalised to cellular automata with dimensionality other than two.
A tagalong is a pattern that is not a spaceship in itself but that can be attached to the back of a spaceship to form a larger spaceship. Similarly, a pushalong is placed at the front.
A pattern that, when a spaceship is input, outputs a copy of the spaceship travelling in a different direction is called a reflector.
Spaceships are important because they can sometimes be modified to produce puffers. Spaceships can also be used to transmit information. For example, in Conway's Game of Life, the ability of the glider (Life's simplest spaceship) to transmit information is part of a proof that Life is Turing-complete.
A spacecraft is a craft, vehicle, vessel or machine designed for spaceflight.
Spaceship may also refer to:
- A starship, spacecraft built for interstellar flight
- Unidentified flying object (UFO), an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object
- "Spaceship" (Puddle of Mudd song)
- "Spaceship" (Tinchy Stryder and Dappy song)
- "Spaceship" (Anhayla song)
- "Spaceship", a song by Kanye West from the album The College Dropout
- "Spaceship", a song by The Vines from the album Vision Valley
- "Spaceship", a song by Angie Aparo
- The Creature Wasn't Nice or Spaceship, a 1981 comedy film starring Leslie Nielsen
- Spaceship (cellular automaton), a pattern that, after a number of generations, translates itself along the board
- Spaceship operator, a comparison primitive in several programming languages
"Spaceship" is the first single by the post-grunge band Puddle of Mudd from their album Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate. The music video premiered on Yahoo Music on November 16, 2009. As of August 2010, "Spaceship" has shifted 118,000 copies in the United States.
"Spaceship" is a single by recording artist Tinchy Stryder and hip hop vocalist Dappy. It was meant to be the first single released from his fourth studio album entitled, Full Tank but Full Tank was scrapped making it a non-album single. It was released on 12 June 2011 as a digital download. The single features vocals from Rapper/singer Dappy of N-Dubz, as well as uncredited back up vocals from Tulisa Contostavlos, also from N-Dubz. This is Tinchy Stryder's first top five single since 2009.
Spaceship is a R&B and soul song by American recording artist Anhayla, released in the US on January 22, 2015. The single was featured on a 2015 AT&T advertisement.
Usage examples of "spaceship".
The biologist nodded his head and muttered that it was hardly right to call a spaceship after a star that had perished.
Space, off Carnaby Street, that was done out like a spaceship, the doors to the sound booths were like airlocks and all the speakers were housed in swoopy blobby cabinets that looked like they were in the middle of a flashback, and there was this other very weird studio called ADR round the back of Kings Cross where there was a stream running half-way up the walls, all the seating was made out of the boots of cars, Minis converted into couches, and you got upstairs to the recording suites through a door opening out of a large tree in the corner of the reception.
Jim, this dingbat looks an awful lot like one of the drivers we use in our spaceships and driver-wing fliers.
The sweet old fud looked around that dim room there in the dead and silent spaceship as though it were a very strange place.
Looking down at the Great Wall, Grand Moff Hissa realized that without a spaceship, cloud car, or airspeeder, there was no way that Triclops could have gotten over the wall to flee from the Valley of Royalty.
This industrial district had been devoted largely to the production of spaceship equipment which the hyperdrive was making as obsolete as fission power.
Ahead, the spaceship hangars were visible, where Mek technicians maintained four spaceships that were jointly the property of Hagedorn, Janeil, Tuang, Mominglight and Maraval, though, for a variety of reasons, the ships were never used.
The line seemed flimsy and fragile, strung as it was between spaceship and moonlet, two objects that floated, resting on no support, in empty three-dimensional space.
He had never seen their children, never seen the vast spaceship Novato was now within, never seen the statue erected in his honor in Capital City.
The spectacle that followed depicted the rise and fall of the First Kingdom, and was built on the twin foundations of prurience and ufology, highlighted by an on-stage Nile flood, a sybaritic orgy, and the destruction of the Great Temple at Karnak by a departing spaceship.
Ruskin shook his head at the thought that he was being remanufactured from the inside out by machines just like those being manipulated by the Yonupians to build spaceships.
Lawyers for the saucerians had been combing the sparsely populated desert around the base seeking people with illnesses, real or imaginary, that they could blame on the presence of the alien spaceship.
Starways owned worlds as well as spaceships, real worlds and worlds like Paradise Worlds were more profitable than spaceships, so Starways continued to run ships, more as insurance against ultimata by other shipping groups than anything else.
Reidel knew only that she was one of the aristocratic caste of telepaths from Vialles, and even in the crowded society of the spaceship, the Viallan telepaths held themselves haughtily aloof from the rest.
A boy who was reported to have an uncle named Virgil, like the Uncle Virge Jack had called to when that spaceship had shown up and shot those Shamshir fighters off her back.