glider

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who glides.
2. isim Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. isim A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. isim Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
5. isim Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).

   “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.”

6. isim A kind of garden swing.

   “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.”

7. isim In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.

   “By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:”

8. isim Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.

   “I wanted to test some totalistic automaton and the glider with the B024S1 rule, which Ilmari Karonen described.”

9. isim A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
10. isim 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.