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Aeroplane vs Spaceship - What's the difference?

aeroplane | spaceship |

As nouns the difference between aeroplane and spaceship

is that aeroplane is a powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings while spaceship is a vehicle that flies through space.

aeroplane

English

Alternative forms

* * (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, British) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
  • (Canada, US, obsolete, aviation) an airplane

    • Derived terms

    * aeroplaning * plane * hydroaeroplane (obsolete)

    Related terms

    * aero- * plane

    See also

    * aircraft * glider * helicopter * airplane

    spaceship

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 2002 , Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance (page 433)
    • We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
  • * 2010 , Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata (page 126)
    • Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move
  • (computing, programming) 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.
  • * 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

    Synonyms

    * (vehicle) spacecraft

    See also

    * flying saucer * UFO

    External links

    * (wikipedia)