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| ret·ro·grade [ réttrō gràyd ] |
adjective |
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1. moving backward: moving backward in space or time
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2. getting worse: worsening or returning to an earlier worse condition
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3. inverse: in writing, inverse or reversed, especially in syntactic order
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4. astronomy having contrary orbit: orbiting in a direction opposite to that of Earth's orbit around the Sun, or of the Moon's orbit around the Earth
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5. astronomy moving east to west: moving or appearing to move from east to west in the sky, counter to the direction of most astronomical objects
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6. music reversing notes: reversing the sequence of notes of an earlier version of a musical composition
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intransitive verb (past and past participle ret·ro·grad·ed, present participle ret·ro·grad·ing, 3rd person present singular ret·ro·grades) |
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1. go backward: to go back or appear to be moving backward in space or time
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2.
Same as retrogress (sense 1)
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| [14th century. < Latin retrogradus "going backward" < gradus "step"] |
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