Tyche

[tahy-kee]

noun

1. the ancient Greek goddess of fortune.

Tyche

/ ˈtaɪkɪ /

noun

1. Roman counterpart: Fortuna. Greek myth the goddess of fortune

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tyche¹

From the Greek word týchē luck, fortune

Example Sentences

Tyche's ride to orbit was booked on a SpaceX Falcon rocket flying out of California.

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Called Tyche, the washing machine-sized spacecraft will have sufficient resolution to identify battlefield troop positions and vehicles.

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If the user asked for five predictions, at the end they can see all five medical image segmentations Tyche produced, even though one might be better than the others.

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In the fifth century B.C.E. the city-state, whose patron deity was Athena, embraced sortition to such a degree that one might say it was de facto governed by Tyche, the goddess of chance.

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She liked to name the dogs for figures in Greek mythology, like Achilles and Tyche.

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