curtate (English, adj)
expansion: curtate (comparative more curtate, superlative most curtate)
Senses:
glosses: Shortened, having been shortened.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
qualifier: actuarial science
glosses: Rounded down.
raw_tags: of a lifetime random variable
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a trochoid as traced from a point within a circle.
Forms:
form: more curtate
tags: comparative
form: most curtate
tags: superlative