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Meaning of curtate | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  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.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

curter curtest curule curvaceous curvacious curvate

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