curtate

Senso (Inglese)

1. Shortened, having been shortened.
2. 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.
3. Rounded down.

Concetti

abbreviato

accorcito

sinonimi

abbreviated

cutty

unabridged

decurtate

Traduzioni

abbreviatus

abreviado

truncado

Etimologia (Inglese)

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