"curtate" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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        "shortened, having been shortened"
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          "roman": "sǎkraten",
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          "word": "съкратен"
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        "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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        "(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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  "etymology_text": "Latin curtatus, past participle of curtare (“to shorten”).",
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        "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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      "word": "съкратен"
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