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What does curtate mean?

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  1. shortened, having been shortened
  2. (astronomy) 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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A trochoid refers to any of the cycloid, the curtate cycloid and the prolate cycloid.

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