Curtate /(k?r"t?t)/
Cur·tate
Curtate
a.
- 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. (Astron.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Curtate cycloid
- See Cycloid.