Battleship vs Spaceship - What's the difference?
battleship | spaceship |
(military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.
Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
A guessing game played on grid paper, see
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 battleship and spaceship
is that battleship is (military) large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought while spaceship is a vehicle that flies through space.battleship
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(en noun)Derived terms
* battleship gray, battleship grey * super battleship * pocket battleship * light battleship * heavy battleship * fast battleshipSee also
* dreadnought * cruiser * destroyer * frigate * sloop * corvette * monitor * gunboat * aircraft carrierspaceship
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(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