noun
Meaning 1
The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: knighthood
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Standard Lemma guide
knightship
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noun
Meaning 2
Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
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Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship.
From knight + ship.