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Definition of Curtate
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.
Definition of Curtate
1. Adjective. shortened, having been shortened ¹
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Definition of Curtate
1. shortened [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtate
Literary usage of Curtate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laboratory Astronomy by Robert Wheeler Willson (1905)
"DIAGRAM OF curtate ORBITS Fig. 80 represents a diagram of the orbits of the five
inner planets projected on the plane of the ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus Founded on the Method of by John Minot Rice, William Woolsey Johnson (1877)
"curtate cycloid. 1. Show that the curtate cycloid cuts the axis of x at right
angles, and, in general, that the line RP is perpendicular to the tangent to ..."
3. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Founded on the Method by William Woolsey Johnson (1904)
"y = a — b cos '/>. '/>. j When b<a, the curve is the prolate cycloid, Fig.
44, and when b>a, the curtate cycloid, Fig. 45. ..."
4. Theoretical Astronomy Relating to the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies by James Craig Watson (1868)
"Ri? sin (©' — ©)' and substitute in equation (11) the values of -77 and -^ thus
found. nN Tkj JL\ If we designate by M the ratio of the curtate distances p ..."
5. Theoretical Astronomy Relating to the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies by James Craig Watson (1900)
"iV If we designate by M the ratio of the curtate distances p and p", we have *=
7 =Jf."+jr (?-£)?: (33) In the numerical application of this, ..."
6. Analytic Geometry: For Technical Schools and Colleges by Preston Albert Lambert (1897)
"PROLATE AND curtate ... the prolate cycloid when the point is within the
circumference, the curtate cycloid when the point is without the circumference. ..."
7. Theoretical and Practical Graphics: An Educational Course on the Theory and ...by Frederick Newton Willson by Frederick Newton Willson (1898)
"Of almost equally general acceptation, although frequently inappropriate, are
the adjectives curtate and prolate, to indicate trochoidal curves traced by ..."
8. A Treatise on Geometry and Its Application in the Arts by Dionysius Lardner (1840)
"and is called the curtate cycloid. This curve has nodes at AB and D E. The points
B and D, where the curve intersects itself, are called multiple points. ..."
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