English dictionary
curtate
/'k/[@]/rt/eI/t/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
adjective
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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.
Source: webster1913