mothership

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If a factory-mothership offers to sell you its by-catch, should you worry about where it came from?

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The state of being a mother.

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noun

The state of being a mother.

noun

Alternative spelling of mother ship. [A vessel, aircraft or spacecraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.]

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Core meanings and parts of speech for mothership.

noun

The state of being a mother.

noun

Alternative spelling of mother ship. [A vessel, aircraft or spacecraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.]

Example sentences

If a factory-mothership offers to sell you its by-catch, should you worry about where it came from?

Perhaps that is why GV and GC exist, to support technological development, and help spur innovation at the mothership?

With all our devices constantly itching to phone the mothership, this is not a fantasy anymore but a possibility.

Obviously, Mozilla is doing all this to tie users to their mothership and make it harder for them to leave.

Microsoft guys seem to have much tighter bond with the mothership, and put a great deal more trust in Redmond's agenda.

Their 3rd eye with which they communicate with their mothership is lost.

Even more cynical to see ex-uber 'employees' being ousted by the mothership.

The signal only needs to reach the mothership, not Earth.

In space explorations you always have a mothership after all.

And the 4,600 or so connected to the mothership.

You can't tell when it's transmitting to the mothership.

I know that GV is a separate entity from Google proper with a chinese wall in place between the corporate mothership and itself.

Quote examples

You still don't know whether closed-source code is using the rng properly, sending "debugging information" containing your private data to the mothership when internet is available/stars align, creating plaintext temporary files in %temp% folder (accessible by all other apps), etc, etc.