Spaceship vs. Battleship — What's the Difference?

A spacecraft, especially one controlled by a crew.

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns, which dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term battleship came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship, now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships.

See spacecraft.

A heavy warship of a type built chiefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with extensive armour protection and large-calibre guns.

(astronautics) A vehicle that flies through space.

Any of a class of very large warships, heavily armored and armed with numerous large-caliber guns. Also called battlewagon.

A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.

A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.

(programming) The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.

A ship of the line.

A spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)

A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.

A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).

An armor-plated warship built of steel and heavily armed, generally having over ten thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to combat the heaviest enemy ships in line of battle; the most heavily armed and armored class of warship at any given time.

Large and heavily armoured warship