glider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: glī'də
ipa: /ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡlaɪdɚ/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gliders
Etymology: From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who glides.
glosses: Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
glosses: A pilot of glider aircraft.
glosses: Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
examples: text: The left drawer runner is probably replaced. Nail holes on the upper surface of the stretchers suggest the piece once had a bottom shelf. Modern metal gliders have been added under the feet.
ref: 2007, Frances Gruber Safford, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
glosses: Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
synonyms: word: glide
extra: cap affixed to base of legs of furniture
examples: text: Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket.
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices, published 2003, page 73:
text: Then I went into the backyard, which had a flower-covered arbor, a small garden wall, and room behind it for a garden. Swings and gliders adorned the yard.
ref: 2011, Mary Biever, He Uses It For Good!, page 5:
glosses: A kind of garden swing.
examples: text: By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
ref: 1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: I believe it is indeed new -- I've gone back through everything I can find, as far back as the early 90's when Heisenburp devices were first invented, and there don't seem to be any reactions based on a glider suppressing a blinker.
ref: 2006 September 28, Dave Greene, “Small Heisenburp device in Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.
ref: 2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life, page 246:
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: spaceship
glosses: In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
examples: text: It is a reversible rule, and an interesting one. Shortly after I implemented it, Chris and I were watching it run from a small random configuration of vants, when we noticed a structure consisting of 2 vants propagating away from the others -- it is a glider of sorts, consisting of 2 cooperating vants moving along, erasing each others' trail.
ref: 1989 June 11, David Hiebeler, comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.
ref: 2003 May 13, Frank Buss, “Totalistic Explorer and squirm”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: By contrast, consider a rule like Seeds (B2/S) that has "gliders" and oscillators and so forth, so theoretically it might support universal computation somehow.
ref: 2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: spaceship
glosses: In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
glosses: A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
Hyponyms: hang glider
motor glider
paraglider
sailplane
Derived terms: word: delta glider
word: feather-tailed glider
word: feathertail glider
word: glider gun
word: greater glider
word: gyroglider
taxonomic: Neptis rivularis
word: Hungarian glider
word: hydroglider
word: Krefft's glider
word: savanna glider
word: squirrel glider
word: stair glider
word: sugar glider
word: wrist-winged glider