SPACESHIP

starship, spaceship

(noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spaceship (plural spaceships)

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.

Hyponym: glider

(programming) The operator <=> in the Perl, PHP and Ruby programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.

Synonyms

• (vehicle): spacecraft

Hypernyms

• ship

Hyponyms

• generation ship

Source: Wiktionary



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3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.

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