Centaur

  1. Noun.  (Greek mythology) One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
  2. Noun.  A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
  3. Noun.  (context, rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
  4. Noun.  (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
  5. Noun.  (Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  6. Noun.  (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).

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