Defining in open AWE usage the metaphor "leg" for a tether; then let "centipede" stand for an AWES with many tethers (~100). Similarly, let "millipede", "megapede", etc. be so understood. "Monopede" has already been applied for single-tether AWES.

High tether count AWES and aerotecture is an major emerging class of AWES to ponder. Highly distributed anchor fields are the characteristic feature. Applications of complex anchor fields have been considered in detail on the AWES Forum, and the concept continues to crystallize nicely.

•  ~ Dave Santos   31Jan2014           Discuss at:    AirborneWindEnergy/conversations/messages/11259

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• Monopede is a kite system having exactly one main tether to the wing set to the anchor. In such naming, we see n-pede kite systems with n assigned a positive integer. Then centipede, millipede, etc.
   
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