spaceship

See also: space ship

English

A spaceship

Etymology

space +‎ ship

Noun

spaceship (plural spaceships)

1. A vehicle that flies through space.
2. (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 […]

3. (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.
   • 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

Translations

vehicle that flies through space

• Afrikaans: ruimteskip
• Albanian: anije kozmike f
• Arabic: سَفِينَة فَضَائِيَّة f (safīna faḍāʾiyya), مَرْكَبَة فَضَائِيَّة f (markaba faḍāʾiyya)
• Armenian: տիեզերանավ (hy) (tiezeranav)
• Asturian: nave espacial f, astronave f
• Azerbaijani: kosmik gəmisi
• Basque: espazio-ontzi
• Belarusian: касмі́чны карабе́ль m (kasmíčny karabjélʹ)
• Bengali: মহাকাশযান (mohakaśjan), কাশযান (kaśjan)
• Bulgarian: косми́чески ко́раб m (kosmíčeski kórab)
• Burmese: အာကာသယာဉ် (my) (akasa.yany)
• Catalan: nau espacial f, astronau f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太空船 (zh) (tàikōngchuán), 飛船／飞船 (zh) (fēichuán), 飞船 (zh) (fēichuán), 宇宙飛船／宇宙飞船 (zh) (yǔzhòu fēichuán), 宇宙飞船 (zh) (yǔzhòu fēichuán)

• Czech: kosmická loď f
• Danish: rumskib n; rumfartøj (da)
• Dutch: ruimteschip (nl) n; ruimtetuig (nl) n, ruimtevaartuig (nl)
• Esperanto: kosmoŝipo, spacoŝipo
• Estonian: kosmoselaev
• Finnish: avaruusalus (fi)
• French: vaisseau spatial (fr) m, véhicule spatial (fr) m, spationef (fr) m, astronef (fr) m
• Galician: nave espacial f, astronave (gl) f
• Georgian: კოსმოსური ხომალდი (ḳosmosuri xomaldi)
• German: Raumschiff (de) n; Raumfahrzeug (de) n
• Greek: διαστημόπλοιο (el) n (diastimóploio)
• Gujarati: અંતરિક્ષયાન (antarikṣayān)
• Hebrew: חללית (he) f (khalalit), סְפִינַת חָלָל (he) f (s'finát khalál), ספינת-חלל
• Hindi: अंतरिक्ष यान m (antrikṣ yān), अंतरिक्ष जहाज़ m (antrikṣ jahāz)
• Hungarian: űrhajó (hu), űreszköz, űrjármű (hu)
• Icelandic: geimskip (is) n; geimfar (is)
• Ido: spaconavo (io), spaco-navo
• Indonesian: pesawat luar angkasa, pesawat ruang angkasa
• Interlingua: astronave, nave spatial; vehiculo spatial
• Irish: spásárthach m
• Italian: nave spaziale f, astronave (it) f
• Japanese: 宇宙船 (ja) (うちゅうせん, uchūsen), 宇宙機 (うちゅうき, uchūki), 宇宙旅行船 (うちゅうりょこうせん, uchūryokōsen)
• Kalmyk: сансрин өңһц (sansrin öñğts)
• Kazakh: ғарыш кемесі (ğaryş kemesı)
• Khmer: យានអវកាស (yiən ʼaʼvĕəʼkaah), តារាយាន (taaraa yiən)
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• Korean: 우주선 (ko) (ujuseon) (宇宙船 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: космостук кемеси (kosmostuk kemesi)
• Lao: ຍານອະວະກາດ (nyān ʼa wa kāt)
• Latvian: kosmosa kuģis m
• Lithuanian: kosminis laivas (lt) m, erdvėlaivis m
• Low German: Ruumschipp n; Ruumfohrtüüg n
• Luxembourgish: Raumschëff
• Macedonian: вселенски брод m (vselenski brod)
• Malay: kapal angkasa lepas
• Maltese: vettura spazjali
• Maori: waka ātea, waka tuarangi
• Mongolian: сансрын хөлөг (sansryn xölög)
• Navajo: yá biyiʼgóó náádadiilwoʼígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: romskip n; (spacecraft) romfartøy n

  Nynorsk: romskip n, (spacecraft) romfartøy n

• Occitan: astronau
• Persian: کشتی فضایی (kašti-ye fazâyi), فضاپیما (fa) (fazapeima)
• Polish: statek kosmiczny (pl) m, pojazd kosmiczny m
• Portuguese: nave espacial f, espaçonave (pt) f, astronave
• Romanian: navă cosmică f
• Russian: косми́ческий кора́бль (ru) m (kosmíčeskij koráblʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свемирски брод m

  Roman: svemirski brod m

• Slovak: kozmická loď f
• Slovene: vesoljska ladja f
• Spanish: nave espacial f, astronave (es) f
• Swedish: rymdskepp (sv) n; rymdfarkost (sv) c
• Tagalog: sikpaw
• Tajik: киштии кайҳонӣ (kištiyi kayhonī)
• Tamil: விண்கலம் (ta) (viṇkalam)
• Thai: ยานอวกาศ (yaan-à-wá-gàat)
• Turkish: uzay gemisi (tr), atılgan (tr)
• Turkmen: kosmos gämisi
• Ukrainian: космі́чний корабе́ль m (kosmíčnyj korabélʹ)
• Urdu: خلائی جہاز m (xalā'ī jahāz)
• Uzbek: kosmik kemasi
• Vietnamese: phi thuyền, tàu vũ trụ, phi thuyền không gian, thiết bị vũ trụ
• Volapük: stelanaf, levalanaf, lespadanaf, kosmonaf, sinaf (vo)
• Welsh: llong ofod (cy) f
• Yiddish: קאָסמאָסשיף f (kosmosshif)

See also

• flying saucer
• spacecraft
• starship
• UFO

Further reading

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