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/ritɑrdˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Retardation n.

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; opposed to acceleration. "The retardations of our fluent motion."

That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction. "Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations."

(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.

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.

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... Stael's sojourn in Weimar lasted some ten weeks, her portentous gift of speech becoming gradually more and more irksome to Schiller and Goethe. The social gayeties occasioned by her presence caused some retardation in the progress of 'William Tell', but on February 18, 1804, it was completed, and two days later the final installment was despatched to the waiting Iffland. How eagerly he was waiting may be inferred from the language used by him after perusal ...

— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas

... the theory of universal gravitation. The irregularities exhibited in the lunar motions had been known in the time of Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Tycho had discovered the great inequality, called the "variation," amounting to 37', and depending on the alternate acceleration and retardation of the moon in every quarter of a revolution, and he had also ascertained the existence of the annual equation. Of these two inequalities Newton gave a most ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, Amiens street, with constant uniform acceleration, along parallel lines meeting at infinity, if produced: along parallel lines, reproduced from infinity, with constant uniform retardation, at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... curve Reason, development of Recapitulation and motor heredity Records in athletics Regularity in education of girls Religious training, age for for girls in Europe premature two methods of Retardation as a means of broadening Revivalists Rhythm, exercise and in primitive ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... more serious duration than that which had drawn down his wrath upon the unlucky Mrs. Macleuchar, our Antiquary only bestowed on the delay the honour of a few episodical poohs and pshaws, which rather seemed to regard the interruption of his disquisition than the retardation of his journey. ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

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