Retardation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RETARDATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act or instance of retarding
• the action of delaying or slowing the progress or development of something
• The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
• That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
• 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.
• a decrease in rate of change
• the extent to which something is delayed or held back
• any agent that retards or delays or hinders
• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
• the act of slowing down or falling behind

Words related to RETARDATION

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Words that contain RETARDATION

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How to use RETARDATION in a sentence

• Delaunay suggests that the earth is at fault, in consequence of the tidal retardation.
• Yet the retardation of wellnigh a thousand years has surely been a giant price to pay.
• The use of submarine or of subterranean conductors occasions, from the above cause, a small retardation in the velocity of the transmitted electricity.
• It was mainly owing to the retardation from this cause that communication through the Atlantic cable was so exceedingly slow and difficult.
• I have alluded to the resistance offered by the conductor of a telegraph-cable to the passage of an electric current, and to the retardation of this current by static induction.
• The retardation in a telegraphic cable, on the contrary, is proportional to the length of the conducting-wire and the intensity of the battery.
• The retardation which resulted from the intense current generated by two hundred cells will be also proportionately reduced in the comparatively small battery of forty cells.
• If, however, the retardation be only equivalent to half a wave length, the intensity of the light will be decreased.
• Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.
• The retardation of the alpha ray in the atom is not affected.
• The retardation which it experiences in its path depends entirely upon the atomic weight of the atoms which it traverses.
• The most dangerous consequence to France, due to her defeat in 1870-71, was the retardation of her economic development.
• In recent years there has been a tendency to regard vocational training as a remedy for retardation.
• The fact is that the cure of retardation is not a subsequent but a preliminary condition to successful training for wage-earning.
• Vocational training is not a means for the prevention of retardation, but retardation is a most effective means for the prevention of vocational training.
• ELECTIVE SEWING COURSES IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL The reduction of retardation all through the grades is of fundamental importance to any plan of vocational training.
• This work of retardation was performed for Russia by Sviatoslaf.
• By this means phases of acceleration and retardation in the series, due to initial increase in velocity and its final decrease as the movement ceases, are avoided.
• The retardation does not always continue until a point is reached at which a beat is dropped from, or an extra one introduced into, the series.
• Acceleration or retardation of speed does not unconditionally affect the number of elements which the rhythm group contains.
• No progressive retardation of the accented element is apparent.
• And the law is, that great activity in either of these processes involves retardation or arrest of the other.
• Slow at all times, it grew, lacking money, to be like one of those dreams of retardation.
• The retardation should always be prepared by the leading-tone.
• This extra syllable before the pause gives the effect of a slight retardation.
• This difference between time and distance was due to the regular retardation of their velocity.
• The reason of such considerable retardation was, that by this time the Projectile had reached such a great distance from the Earth that it had hardly any weight.
• This same final crisis is also prophesied on the basis of a slight retardation to which the planets are subjected in their passage through the ethereal medium.
• When stimulated, however, he responded promptly and had no retardation.
• In practice of course, students of retardation test children by standardized scales.
• The wires and the surrounding water act as a Leyden jar, and the retardation of the current predicted by Faraday manifests itself in every message sent by such cables.
• The voyage lasted a month, tedious and monotonous, more trying than his retardation on land, for there at least he could recover some serenity by violent exercise.
• In a few minutes, the gradual retardation of the rush, and then its extinction under a heavy fire, showed that the attempt had failed.
• We must not be misled by the term retardation to suppose it means behind time, for a retarded body is before time.
• Indications point to a retardation of one and a half hours both before and since.

Similar words containing TARDA without suffix tion and without prefix re

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