retardation

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Perse," said Eda Lou Walton, "caught the modern nostalgia for new fields of exploration, the sense of decay in the old, the use of a mythical pageantry to suggest world movements and retardations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its accelerations and retardations carry on a continual conflict with the typical time of the music, yet that typical time is not only printed on every sheet, but is in the mind of every player.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

We may conclude, therefore, that the volume of business done on credit gradually increases as the population and total amount of business are enlarged, but at a decreasing rate and with occasional or periodic retardations.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

Happily he was able to resist the descending impetus: the knots of the splicings furnished a succession of retardations.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

Among the former were the successive retardations of seasons in successive descents, amounting to about four months at the depth of 25 feet; and the successive diminutions of the annual range of temperature.

From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by Airy, George Biddell