"Curtate" is a word in ENGLISH
curtate
ENGLISH
Definition:
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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