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day and night

adv

Etymology

Named for the fact that the rule is its own complement; toggling all cell states results in the pattern evolving similarly, but with living and dead cells switched.

Definitions

  1. All the time

    All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.

    • Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
    • We were firing at top speed day and night on counter-battery work, neutralisation, and aeroplane shoots, and all spare men were commandeered to help feed the guns.
    • Kiko has it bad enough right now, with reporters stalking her day and night

  2. Synonym of chalk and cheese (“two things that are very different”).

  3. A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B3678/S34678.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for day and night. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA