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curtate |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Curtate \Cur"tate\ (k?r"t?t), a. [L. curtatus p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr curtus. See {Curt}.] (Astron.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic. {Curtate cycloid}. (Math.) See {Cycloid}.
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