Missile vs Spaceship - What's the difference?
missile | spaceship |
An object intended to be launched into the air at a target.
(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after having been launched.
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 missile and spaceship
is that missile is an object intended to be launched into the air at a target while spaceship is a vehicle that flies through space.missile
English
(wikipedia missile)Noun
(en noun)- That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
See also
* projectile * rocketExternal links
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* * ----spaceship
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