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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: sĕn'tô(r), IPA(key): /ˈsɛntɔː(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
- (US, Canada, also) IPA(key): /ˈsɛntɑɹ/
- Hyphenation: cen‧taur
Noun
[edit]centaur (plural centaurs)
- (Greek mythology) 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.
- Synonym: hippocentaur
- (astronomy, also capitalised) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
- (chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
- 2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159:
- 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.
- (by extension, artificial intelligence) A human and an AI who work together.
- 2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8:
- 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.
- 2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mythical half-man, half-horse
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astronomy
See also
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Further reading
[edit]Centaur (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]centaur m (plural centauren, diminutive centaurtje n)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin centaurus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]centaur m animal
Declension
[edit]Declension of centaur
singular | plural | |
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nominative | centaur | centaury |
genitive | centaura | centaurów |
dative | centaurowi | centaurom |
accusative | centaura | centaury |
instrumental | centaurem | centaurami |
locative | centaurze | centaurach |
vocative | centaurze | centaury |
Related terms
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Further reading
[edit]- centaur in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- centaur in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centaurus.
Noun
[edit]centaur m (plural centauri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of centaur
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) centaur | centaurul | (niște) centauri | centaurii |
genitive/dative | (unui) centaur | centaurului | (unor) centauri | centaurilor |
vocative | centaurule | centaurilor |
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