x-wing

noun — 2 senses

x-wing

noun
1

An aircraft wing design with two wings making an X form in the horizontal plane.

2

A pattern commonly found in a sudoku grid where the only possible locations for a number, or a pair, are uniquely in only two rows and two columns. Diagonals drawn between these four cells would form a symmetrical X.

Related terms
y-wing, jellyfish, swordfish

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