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Mythical creature, gold in the middle? Not quite
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centaur
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n. (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus , The Centaur ]
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Centaur is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is currently used on the Atlas V . Centaur boosts its satellite payload to geosynchronous orbit or, in the case of an interplanetary space probe , to or near to escape ...
Usage examples of centaur.
Froid, one of the administerial centaurs, who may have been an emigre brother with a passport-changed name of the Dr.
Centaur, and I have lost my Napoli, and I cannot imagine a better description of cut moorings and being adrift than that.
I am neither your Minotaur, nor your Centaur, nor your satyr, nor your hyaena, nor your babion, but your mere traveller, believe me.
Chet and Chem Centaur had evidently been out to the baobab tree and carried in the latest victim.
But maybe the centaur was not unfriendly, despite appearances---or did not know that Bink had no magic.
It is believed that this site is maintained by the centaur Foaly, technical consultant to the Lower Elements Police, although this has never been proved.
It was apparent that the centaur had lacked the gumption to tackle something she found objectionable.
Centaur scout ship, which had the best navigational information system in the Corridor, but Guz had never really used it, had only checked that it was fully functional.
This passage of the Sun into Taurus, whose attributes he assumes on his return from the lower hemisphere or the shades, is marked by the rising in the evening of the Wolf and the Centaur, and by the heliacal setting of Orion, called the Star of Horus, and which thenceforward is in conjunction with the Sun of Spring, in his triumph over the darkness or Typhon.
I will explore this tricky situation in volume 2, and point out why the structures of the centaur are the only ones integrative enough to address this situation.
Zink and Jama and Potipher, bullies and troublemakers, who had caused ire in the centaur camp.
Centaur with some placid touchy-feely banter and the spacey, satellite slides of planet Earth.
Lance Corporal Schultz only hesitated an instant when he saw the headless centaurs spearing the Skinks.
She knew that if the centaur filly tried to kick his head, he would just unhappen the event, then unhappen her project.
Berlin, the greatest anatomist and physiologist among my contemporaries, had barely affirmed he had seen a live centaur, I should certainly have been staggered by the weight of an assertion coming from such an authority.