curtate

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Shortened, having been shortened.
  2. 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.
  3. Rounded down.
  4. Describing a trochoid as traced from a point within a circle.

词形变化

more curtate comparative most curtate superlative

词汇关系

相关词
curt curtation

词源

First attested in 1676; borrowed from Latin curtātus, perfect passive participle of curtō (“to shorten”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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