1) Abbreviated 2) Reduced 3) Shortened 
shortened; short
• (a.) 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.
Cur'tate adjective [ Latin curtatus , past participle of curtare to shorten, from 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 ...
shortened; reduced; abbreviated.