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adjective Curtate adj. (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.
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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