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Definition of Retrogradation
1. n. The act of retrograding, or moving backward.
Definition of Retrogradation
1. Noun. Motion in a retrograde manner ¹
2. Noun. Decline, degradation ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retrogradation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogradation
Literary usage of Retrogradation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"DIVISION OF LABOUR AND DIVERGENCE OP FORMS. PROGRESS AND retrogradation. ...
retrogradation.—The Origin of Rudimentary Organs by Non-Use and Habits ..."
2. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"DIVISION OF LABOUR AND DIVERGENCE OF FORMS. PROGRESS AND retrogradation. ...
retrogradation.—The Origin of Rudimentary Organs by Non-Use and Habits ..."
3. Celestial Scenery: Or, The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed by Thomas Dick (1838)
"Its mean arc of retrogradation is nine degrees, fifty-four minutes, and its mean
duration about 121 days. This retrogradation ..."
4. Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the by John Henry Newman (1891)
"a general view either of the general progress or retrogradation in the whole or
its parts. The great activity in almost every class ..."
5. Caesar and the Britons by Henry Barry (1831)
"retrogradation must be allowed, as well as advancement, otherwise it might rashly
be concluded that civilization had never visited the shores of Pentapolis, ..."
6. Astronomy Without Mathematics by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1883)
"retrogradation of planets.—Although the planets seen from the sun would appear
to go round him, as they do, with very little variation in their pace, ..."
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