curtate
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Etymology[edit]
Latin curtatus, past participle of curtare (“to shorten”).
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curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)
- shortened, having been shortened
- (astronomy) 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
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curtāte