Curtate
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Curtate is an adjective meaning Shortened, having been shortened.
Meaning
Shortened, having been shortened.
More Meanings
- (actuarial science, of a lifetime random variable) Rounded down.
- (mathematics) Describing a trochoid as traced from a point within a circle.
- (astronomy) Describing any distance measured in the ecliptic plane between the Sun (or Earth) and the orthogonal projection of an astronomical object (particularly another planet) onto said plane.
Synonyms for curtate
Depending on context, synonyms include truncate, truncated.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cycloid, curt, curtal, cutty, close-cropped, cropped.
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