glider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
entomology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.
Base: glide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: gliders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who glides.
pos: noun
gloss: Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
pos: noun
gloss: A pilot of glider aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A kind of garden swing.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
pos: noun
examples: By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:
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.
In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.
gloss: In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: 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.
I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.
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.
gloss: A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Derived words: delta glider
feather-tailed glider
feathertail glider
glider gun
greater glider
gyroglider
Hungarian glider
hydroglider
Krefft's glider
mahogany glider
ring-tailed glider
savanna glider
squirrel glider
stair glider
sugar glider
wrist-winged glider
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sweeftuig
lang: Albanian
word: avion pa motor
lang: Arabic
word: طائرة شراعية
lang: Belarusian
word: планёр
roman: planjór
lang: Bengali
word: গ্লাইডার
roman: glaiḍar
lang: Bulgarian
word: планер
roman: planer
lang: Burmese
word: ဂလိုက်ဒါလေယာဉ်
roman: ga.luikdaleyany
lang: Catalan
word: planador
lang: Catalan
word: veler
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 滑翔機 /滑翔机
roman: waat⁶ coeng⁴ gei¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 滑翔機 /滑翔机
roman: huáxiángjī
lang: Czech
word: kluzák
lang: Czech
word: větroň
lang: Danish
word: svævefly
lang: Dutch
word: zweefvliegtuig
lang: Esperanto
word: glisilo
lang: Esperanto
word: aerglitilo
lang: Estonian
word: purilennuk
lang: Estonian
word: plaaner
lang: Finnish
word: purjelentokone
lang: Finnish
word: liitokone
lang: French
word: planeur
lang: Galician
word: planador
lang: Georgian
word: პლანერი
roman: ṗlaneri
lang: German
word: Segelflugzeug
lang: German
word: Gleiter
lang: German
word: Gleitflugzeug
lang: Greek
word: ανεμόπτερο
roman: anemóptero
lang: Hebrew
word: דאון
lang: Hindi
word: ग्लाइडर
roman: glāiḍar
lang: Hungarian
word: vitorlázó repülőgép
lang: Hungarian
word: vitorlázórepülő
lang: Icelandic
word: sviffluga
lang: Irish
word: faoileoir
lang: Italian
word: aliante
lang: Italian
word: veleggiatore
lang: Japanese
word: グライダー
roman: guraidā
lang: Japanese
word: 滑空機
roman: kakkūki
lang: Kannada
word: ತೇಲು ವಿಮಾನ
roman: tēlu vimāna
lang: Kazakh
word: планер
roman: planer
lang: Korean
word: 글라이더
roman: geullaideo
lang: Latin
word: aëronavis velivola
lang: Latvian
word: planieris
lang: Lithuanian
word: sklandytuvas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Segelfliger
lang: Macedonian
word: едрилица
roman: edrilica
lang: Malayalam
word: ഗ്ലൈഡർ
roman: glaiḍaṟ
lang: Manx
word: foilleyr
lang: Māori
word: waka rereangi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: seilfly
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: seglfly
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: glidefly
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: seglfly
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: glidefly
lang: Persian
word: گلایدر
roman: glâyder
lang: Polish
word: szybowiec
lang: Portuguese
word: planador
lang: Romanian
word: planor
lang: Russian
word: планёр
roman: planjór
lang: Sicilian
word: alianti
lang: Slovak
word: klzák
lang: Slovak
word: vetroň
lang: Slovene
word: jadralno letalo
lang: Spanish
word: planeador
lang: Swedish
word: segelflygplan
lang: Swedish
word: glidflygplan
lang: Tamil
word: மிதவை வானூர்தி
roman: mitavai vāṉūrti
lang: Thai
word: เครื่องร่อน
roman: krʉ̂ʉang-rɔ̂n
lang: Turkish
word: planör
lang: Ukrainian
word: пла́нер
roman: pláner
lang: Vietnamese
word: tàu lượn
lang: Võro
word: lauglinnuk
lang: Welsh
word: gleider
lang: Yiddish
word: גלידער
roman: glider
lang: Finnish
word: kulkuri
lang: French
word: planeur
lang: Russian
word: планёр
roman: planjór