Associations to the word «Curtate»

Noun

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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

Wise words

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus