retrogradation
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The retrogradation of wheat starch in bread is responsible for staling.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2016
As it cools down, the starch goes through a process called retrogradation and the molecules begin to to rearrange and realign themselves into a crystalline structure again.
From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2011
An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The arc of retrogradation is the angular distance thus apparently traversed.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
In truth, however, the retrogradation was much slighter than appeared on the surface.
From American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History by Fiske, John
