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Curtate
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Curtate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/curtate.html. 1828.