Aircraft vs Spaceship - What's the difference?
aircraft | spaceship |
A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.
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)
* 2010 , Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata (page 126)
(computing, programming) The operator
* 2012 , Randal Schwartz, ?Brian Foy, ?Tom Phoenix, Intermediate Perl (page 142)
As nouns the difference between aircraft and spaceship
is that aircraft is a vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift while spaceship is a vehicle that flies through space.aircraft
English
(wikipedia aircraft)Noun
(aircraft)Usage notes
* The nonstandard plural form is in use among non-native speakers of English.Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* aircraft carrier * model aircraft * rocket aircraftspaceship
English
Noun
(en noun)- We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
- Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move
<=> in the Perl programming language, 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
$aand$b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order