Usually means: Shorter than the full extent.
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  1. curtate: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. curtate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curtate: Wordnik
  5. curtate: Wiktionary
  6. curtate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. curtate: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Curtate, curtate: Dictionary.com
  9. Curtate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. curtate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Curtate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. curtate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. curtate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. curtate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. curtate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. curtate: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (curtate)

adjective:  shortened, having been shortened
adjective:  (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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