Associations to the word «Curtate»
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Wiktionary
CURTATE, adjective. Shortened, having been shortened
CURTATE, adjective. (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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