ALL meanings of curtate
cur·tate
C c - adjective curtate shortened 3
- adjective curtate shortened; abbreviated 3
- noun curtate Shortened, having been shortened. 1
- adjective curtate shortened; reduced; abbreviated. 1
- adjective curtate (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. 0