| Retard |
v. t. |
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship;
opposed to accelerate. |
| Retard |
v. t. |
To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations. |
| Retard |
v. i. |
To stay back. |
| Retard |
n. |
Retardation; delay. |
| Retardation |
n. |
The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship;
opposed to acceleration. |
| Retardation |
n. |
That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. |
| Retardation |
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. |
| Retardation |
n. |
The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay. |
| Retardative |
a. |
Tending, or serving, to retard. |
| Retarded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Retard |
| Retarder |
n. |
Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire. |
| Retarder |
n. |
A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action. |
| Retarder |
n. |
One who, or that which, retards. |
| Retarding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Retard |
| Retardment |
n. |
The act of retarding; retardation. |
