Centaur

Centaur definitions

noun
  • A skillful horseman or horsewoman. 

  • One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception. 

  • A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes. 

  • An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune