curtate

Etymology
, past participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) shortened, having been shortened
 * 2)  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

Derived terms

 * curtation

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,