Thesaurus: retardation

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1. n. The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
2. n. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
3. n. 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.
4. n. The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
5. n. a decrease in rate of change
6. n. the extent to which something is delayed or held back
7. n. any agent that retards or delays or hinders
8. n. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
9. n. the act of slowing down or falling behind
10. 1. The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: acceleration. The retardations of our fluent motion. De Quinsey. 2. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations. Sir W. Scott. 3. (Mus.) 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. 4. The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay. Retardation of the tide. (a) The lunitidal interval, or the hour angle of the moon at the time of high tide any port; the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of high tide next following. (b) The age of the tide; the retard of the tide. See under Retard, n.
11. The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord byprolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into theintermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension byresolving upwards instead of downwards.
12. n:100 n. the extent to which something is delayed or held back n. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities