RETARDATION
\ɹɪtɑːdˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɹɪtɑːdˈeɪʃən], \ɹ_ɪ_t_ɑː_d_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of RETARDATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
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The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; - opposed to acceleration.
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The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; - differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
By Oddity Software
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The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
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The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; - opposed to acceleration.
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The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; - differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of retarding; hinderance; delay.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of lessening the velocity of motion; hindrance; retard of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself; retardation of mean solar time, the change of the mean suns right ascension in a sidereal day, by which he appears to hang back, as it were, in his diurnal revolution.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
