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Definition of Curtate

Curtate
Curtate Cur"tate (k?r"t?t), a. [L. curtatus, p. p. of curtare to shorten, fr. curtus. See Curt.] (Astron.) Shortened or reduced; -- 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. Curtate cycloid. (Math.) See Cycloid.

Meaning of Curtate from wikipedia

- known as a cycloid); if the point is inside the circle, the trochoid is curtate; and if the point is outside the circle, the trochoid is prolate. The word...
- of golden age violins are closely modeled by curtate cycloid curves. Later work indicates that curtate cycloids do not serve as general models for these...
- m-gon, and a hypotrochogon if it rolls inside the m-gon. The trochogon is curtate if z is inside the n-gon, and prolate (with loops) if z is outside the...
- not the rate at which people of that age die. It can be shown that The curtate ****ure lifetime, denoted K(x){\displaystyle K(x)}, is a discrete random...
- from a life table is life expectancy. ex{\displaystyle \,e_{x}} is the curtate expectation of life for a person alive at age x{\displaystyle x}. This...
- currus curr- chariot corral, curule curtus curt- shortened curt, curtail, curtate, decurt curvus curv- bent curb, curvate, curvation, curvature, curve, curviform...
- http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cycloid.html and http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CurtateCycloid.html Hutton, Charles (1795). "Rota Aristotelica". Mathematical and...
- publishes a paper without his help. Mathematics used: Steady Motion Algorithm, Curtate cycloid, symmetry and combinatorics 42 5 "Traffic" J. Miller Tobin Nicolas...