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Webster 1913 Edition


Curtate

Cur′tate

(k?r′t?t)
,
Adj.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Curtate

CURTATE

,
Adj.
[L., to shorten.] The curtate distance, in astronomy, is the distance of a planet from the sun to that point, where a perpendicular let fall from the planet meets with the ecliptic. Or the interval between the sun or earth, and that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet, meets the ecliptic.

Definition 2024


curtate

curtate

English

Adjective

curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)

  1. shortened, having been shortened
  2. (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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Latin

Verb

curtāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of curtō