Useful english dictionary. 2012.
curtate — a. shortened; short. ♦ curtate distance, Astronomy, distance of heavenly body from sun or earth in ecliptic plane. ♦ curtation, n. difference between curtate distance and true distance … Dictionary of difficult words
Curtate — Cur tate (k?r t?t), a. [L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See {Curt}.] (Astron.) 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Curtate cycloid — Curtate Cur tate (k?r t?t), a. [L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See {Curt}.] (Astron.) 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Curtation — Cur*ta tion (k?r t? sh?n), n. (Astron.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
curtation — noun The interval of a planets orbit in which its curtate or shortened distance is less than the true distance … Wiktionary
little — Synonyms and related words: Lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace, arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, back burner, bantam, barely, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, bit, borne, bowshot, brief, brief span, by a… … Moby Thesaurus
cycloid — cycloidal, adj. cycloidally, adv. /suy kloyd/, adj. 1. resembling a circle; circular. 2. (of the scale of a fish) smooth edged, more or less circular in form, and having concentric striations. 3. (of a fish) having such scales. 4. Psychiatry. of… … Universalium
