curtate

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词形变化

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Shortened, having been shortened.

  2. 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.

    天文
  3. 3.

    Rounded down.

  4. 4.

    Describing a trochoid as traced from a point within a circle.

    数学

词源

First attested in 1676; borrowed from Latin curtātus, perfect passive participle of curtō (“to shorten”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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