centaur
/ˈsɛn.tɔɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
noun
One of a number of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
noun
A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
noun
A human and an AI who work together.
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Sagittarius.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of centaur.
Example Sentences
- "This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess."
- "The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise."
- "Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing."
- "A centaur goes in circles if the human half doesn’t know what it’s doing. That’s where the panic over pedagogy comes in."
- "The Centaure, the horn'd goatfiſh Capricorne, The ſnake-heard [sic] Gorgon, and fierce Sagittar."
- "He picked up the ancient book of magic. ‘The Sign of the Centaur. Half man, half horse. Where shall I find it?’"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɛn.tɔɹ/
- British English: /ˈsɛn.tɔː/
Inflected Forms
centaurs (plural)
the Centaur (canonical)