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Meaning of "curtate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CURTATE

From Late Latin curtāre to shorten, from Latin curtus cut short.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CURTATE

curtate  [ˈkɜːteɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CURTATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Curtate is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CURTATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of curtate in the English dictionary

The definition of curtate in the dictionary is shortened.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CURTATE


acetate
ˈæsɪˌteɪt
aspartate
əˈspɑːteɪt
circumnutate
ˌsɜːkəmˈnjuːteɪt
constate
kənˈsteɪt
dictate
dɪkˈteɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
facilitate
fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt
hesitate
ˈhɛzɪˌteɪt
imitate
ˈɪmɪˌteɪt
interstate
ˈɪntəˌsteɪt
lactate
ˈlækteɪt
meditate
ˈmɛdɪˌteɪt
out-of-state
ˈaʊtəvˌsteɪt
prostate
ˈprɒsteɪt
rotate
rəʊˈteɪt
scutate
ˈskjuːteɪt
state
steɪt
superfetate
ˌsuːpəˈfiːteɪt
Tate
teɪt
upstate
ˈʌpˈsteɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CURTATE

curtain call
curtain hook
curtain lecture
curtain pole
curtain rail
curtain raiser
curtain ring
curtain rod
curtain speech
curtain wall
curtain-raiser
curtain-twitcher
curtain-up
curtained
curtainless
curtains
curtal
curtal axe
curtana
curtation

WORDS THAT END LIKE CURTATE

chief of state
city-state
Department of State
dissertate
Empire State
Free State
Golden State
home State
industrial estate
lie in state
North-Central State
orientate
portate
precipitate
real estate
secretary of state
solid-state
steady state
tri-state
Under-Secretary of State

Synonyms and antonyms of curtate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «curtate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CURTATE

Find out the translation of curtate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of curtate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «curtate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

curtate
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

curtate
570 millions of speakers

English

curtate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

curtate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

curtate
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

curtate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

curtate
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

curtate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

espérance abrégée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurangkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

curtate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

curtate
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

curtate
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Curtate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

curtate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

curtate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्टेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eliptik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

curtata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

curtate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

curtate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

curtate
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

curtate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

curtate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

curtate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

curtate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of curtate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CURTATE»

The term «curtate» is used very little and occupies the 159.041 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CURTATE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about curtate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CURTATE»

Discover the use of curtate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to curtate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
2.6 Curtate future lifetime 2.6.1 Kx and ex In many insurance applications we are interested not only in the future lifetime of an individual, but also in what is known as the individual's curtate future lifetime. The curtate future lifetime random ...
David C. M. Dickson, Mary Hardy, Mary R. Hardy, 2013
2
Life Insurance & Modified Endowments: Under Internal Revenue ...
For an annual calculation, multiplying the curtate value by [i -r In (1 + i)], where In is the natural logarithm, produces a value appropriate for the assumption of a uniform distribution of deaths (and claim payments).47 The factor here is slightly  ...
‎2004
3
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the ...
However, subjects perceive the point's path not as the cycloid, but as the curtate cycloid, containing loops where the point contacts the surface. This is the curtate cycloid illusion. I hypothesize that the illusion occurs because the cognitive ...
Johanna D. Moore, Jill Fain Lehman, 1995
4
The Practice of Life Assurance
For example, suppose that x is the age next birthday at entry and that t is the curtate duration at the date of valuation which may be asSumed to fall, as is customary, on 31 December in a given year. The valuation age at the end of the year of ...
N. E. Coe, M. E. Ogborn, 2013
5
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the ...
Subjects, however draw the curtate cycloid, characterized by bottom loops, rather than the cycloid to depict the path that a point on a static wheel's perimeter would trace if the wheel were rolling. This is the curtate cycloid illusion. In Experiment ...
Ashwin Ram, Kurt Eiselt, 1994
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The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester
If necessary to bring into evidence the componend we may use the more explicit notation I)it A,- to signify natural and curtate denumerants of the order i with the n n-l n я я и-1 componend n. Thus we may write Di-Di=&i and Di-Z)<_]=A(.
James Joseph Sylvester, 2008
7
Financial and Actuarial Statistics: An Introduction, Second ...
For (x), the distribution of future lifetime is the curtate ran- dom variable K. As in the continuous case, the expectation or mean and the variance characterize the center and variability. Based on age x, the mean curtate future lifetime, found using ...
Dale S. Borowiak, Arnold F. Shapiro, 2013
8
An Introduction to the True Astronomy, Or, Astronomical ...
^r&ument of Latitude, by which, and an eafy trigonometrical Calculation, we can find the centri- The curtate cal Latitude of the Planet, and its curtate Distance m 'p' aresf from the Su", which iS tfle DistanCe from ^ Sun to that Point, where a ...
John Keill, 1739
9
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
With regard to the small planets, whose latitude is often considerable, the equation will apply with slight alterations in the following form : „ .... , curtate distance , , • , Error of helioc. long = — : ; ; — x error of geocen. longitude proj. rad . vec. x cos ...
Royal Astronomical Society, 1838
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Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
With regard to the small planets, whose latitude is often considerable, the equation will apply with slight alterations in the following form : curtate distance proj. rad' vec. X cos (A__L) X error of geocen. longitude Error of helioc. long = tan . (2.-L) .

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