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chained_bear commented on the word curtate distance
"Curtate distance, in astronomy, is the distance of a planet from the sun to that point where a perpendicular let fall from the planet meets with the ecliptic."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 115
October 14, 2008