knightship
knightship · knightships
The honor bestowed that makes someone a knightThe honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
Meaning
3 sensesThe honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship. From knigInherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship.
From knight + ship.
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Forms
plural: knightships| Singular | knightship |
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