Retard(n.) Retardation; delay.
Retard(v. i.) To stay back.
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.
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.) One who, or that which, retards.
Retarding(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retard
Retardment(n.) The act of retarding; retardation.
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