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Curtate vs Curvate - What's the difference?

curtate | curvate |

As adjectives the difference between curtate and curvate

is that curtate is shortened, having been shortened while curvate is bent in a regular form; curved.

curtate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • shortened, having been shortened
  • (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

    • Derived terms

    * curtation

    Anagrams

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    curvate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * curvated

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • bent in a regular form; curved
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