- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. 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. Source: webster
- 3. Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet fromthe sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or thedistance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular,let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets theecliptic. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid. Source: adambom
- 4. 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. Source: ecdict
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