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1. Centaur
   Centaur was an American space rocket first developed in 1958 and the first American space vehicle to utilise liquid hydrogen as a propellant. Centaur was 3414 cm long and 305 cm in diameter. Centaur was first launched in 1962, the vehicle being destroyed 54 seconds after launch after an insulation s...
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2. Centaur
   a mythical being with the head, arms and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
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3. centaur
   [n] - (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
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4. centaur
   In Greek mythology, a creature half human and half horse, wild and lawless. Chiron, the men ...
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5. Centaur
   Cruiser tank [UK]
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6. centaur
   ES which assists pulmonary physiologists in diagnostic interpretation of pulmonary function tests.Knowledge is represented as a combination of frames and rules,and certainty measures are used to indicate how closely the actual data match the expected data values of the prototype.CENTAUR has an expla...
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7. Centaur
   Cen'taur (sĕn'tar) noun [ Latin centaurus , Greek Ke`ntayros .] 1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse. 2. (Astron.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
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8. centaur
   noun (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
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9. Centaur
   • (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross. • (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
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10. Centaur
    (from the article `Atlas rocket`) ...Atlas–Agena rocket is used for launching lunar and planetary probes, as well as Earth-orbiting satellites, such as Seasat, where the Agena is also ... Another U.S. upper stage, used with the Atlas and Titan launch vehicles, is Centaur. This was the first U.S. rocket stage to employ cryogenic ......
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11. Centaur
    (from the article `typography`) ...the Bible ever issued in English; his smaller and less ambitious efforts, often decorated with the typographic ornament at which he was a master, ... ...composition could be used to produce books at once handsome and functional. Among these types were Garamond, based upon a 17th-century French ... [...
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12. Centaur
    in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the ... [1 related articles]
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13. Centaur
    A centaur was a beast half horse, and with the head, torso and arms of a man.
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14. centaur
    centaur (sen'tôr) , in Greek mythology, creature, half man and half horse. The centaurs were fathered by Ixion or by Centaurus, who was Ixion's son. Followers of Dionysus, they were uncouth and savage, but some, such as Chiron, became friends and teachers of men. Their half-brothers, the L...
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15. centaur
    In Greek mythology, a creature half human and half horse, wild and lawless. Chiron, the mentor of the hero Heracles and tutor of the god of medicine Asclepius, was an exception. Their home was said to be on Mount Pelion, Thessaly
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16. Centaur
    In `Κένταυροι`--> – Kéntauroi) or `hippocentaur` is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings, as on the kantharos (illustrated below left), they are depicted with the h...
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17. Centaur
    (rocket stage) as payload. `Centaur` is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles. Centaur boosts its satellite payload to geosynchronous orbit or, in the case of an interplanetary space probe, to or near to escape velocity. Centaur was the world`s first high...
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18. Centaur
    (minor planet) `Centaurs` are an unstable orbital class of minor planets that behave with characteristics of both asteroids and comets. They are named after the mythological race of beings, centaurs, which were a mixture of horse and human. Centaurs have transient orbits that cross or have cr...
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19. Centaur
    (band) `Centaur` is a band formed in 2000 by Hum founder Matt Talbott, with Jim Kelly of Sixteen Tons on drums and Derek Niedrignhaus of Castor on bass. Their debut album, In Streams was released on Hum`s label, Martian Go Home Records in late 2001. External links:
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20. Centaur
    (typeface) `Centaur` is a Humanist Type Family originally drawn as titling capitals by Bruce Rogers in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The matrices were cut by Robert Wiebking and the type was privately cast by the American Type Foundery. The typeface is based upon several Renaissanc...
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