"glider gun" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):",
          "text": "But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return.",
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          "ref": "1998, M. Delorme, Jacques Mazoyer, Cellular automata: a parallel model, page 64:",
          "text": "Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.",
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          "ref": "2005 January 2, Kent Dolan, “Re: Smaller UTM than Rule110”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):",
          "text": "In particular, since those two patterns extend their repetitions endlessly to the left and right, there is no need for a \"glider gun\" to provide a continuous supply of new patterns, as you suggest.",
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        "In the Game of Life, any pattern that \"fires\" out gliders."
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        "(cellular automata) In the Game of Life, any pattern that \"fires\" out gliders."
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