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centipawn

noun

Etymology

From centi- + pawn.

  1. derived from *pand✻ — “deposit, security, pledge”
  2. derived from pan
  3. inherited from paun
  4. formed as centipawn — “centi- + pawn”

Definitions

  1. One hundredth of the value of a pawn, especially for calculation purposes in computer…

    One hundredth of the value of a pawn, especially for calculation purposes in computer chess.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for centipawn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA