noun. undefined

noun. The act or process of delaying or impeding.

noun. The condition of being delayed or impeded.

noun. The extent to which something is held back or delayed.

noun. Something that retards; a delay or hindrance.

noun. Impaired intellectual development.

noun. A diminishing of tempo; a retard.

noun. The act of retarding or making slower, or its effect; the hindering of motion, growth, or progress, or the hindrance effected; the act of delaying or impeding.

noun. In physics:

noun. A continuous decrement of velocity; a negative acceleration.

noun. In acoustics and optics, the distance by which one wave is behind another. Better called retard, being translation of French retard.

noun. Postponement; deferment.

noun. Specifically, in music:

noun. The act, process, or result of diminishing the speed or pace of the tempo

noun. The prolongation of a concordant tone into a chord where it is a discord which is resolved upward: opposed to anticipation, and distinguished from suspension by the upward resolution

noun. In telegraphy, decrease in the speed of telegraph-signaling due to self-induction and induction from surrounding conductors.

noun. That which retards; a hindrance; an obstruction; an impediment.

noun. The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; ; -- opposed to acceleration.

noun. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

noun. 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.

noun. The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.

noun. The age of the tide; the retard of the tide. See under Retard, n.

noun. The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.

noun. The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.

noun. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

noun. Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.

noun. A suspension which resolves upwards.

noun. a decrease in rate of change

noun. the extent to which something is delayed or held back

noun. any agent that retards or delays or hinders

noun. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

noun. the act of slowing down or falling behind

"We must not be misled by the term retardation to suppose it means behind time, for a retarded body is before time."

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