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spacefiller

noun

Etymology

From space + filler.

  1. derived from *pl̥h₁nós✻ — “full”
  2. inherited from *fullijaną✻ — “to make full, fill”
  3. inherited from *fullijan✻
  4. inherited from fyllan — “to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”
  5. inherited from fillen
  6. formed as filler — “fill + -er”
  7. compounded as spacefiller — “space + filler”

Definitions

  1. A stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example…

    A stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example becomes available, or if the better example is prohibitively expensive.

  2. A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.

    • Spacefiller patterns might possibly even be within reach of current search programs; these would have much more predictable (and higher) growth rates from the start.
    • Other things that can be built (I see no reason why not) are a self-replicator, quadratically growing spacefiller, programmable computer/constructor, self-growing prime number sieve.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spacefiller. 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