Retardation is the act or result of delaying; the extent to which anything is retarded or delayed; that which retards or delays.
Retardation or retarded may refer to:
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1 Music
2 Medicine and biology
3 Physics and engineering
4 Other uses
5 See also
Music
Retardation (music), a suspension that resolves upward instead of downward
“Retarded” (song), a 1990 single by the band The Afghan Whigs
Medicine and biology
Mental retardation, also known as intellectual disability, a disorder characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in adaptive behaviors
Psychomotor retardation, a slowing-down of thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual
Neoteny, retention by adults of traits previously seen only in the young
Physics and engineering
Retardation factor, in chromatography, the fraction of an analyte in the mobile phase of a chromatographic system
Retarded potential, in electrodynamics, electromagnetic potentials generated by time-varying electric current or charge distributions in the past
Retarded time, time when an electromagnetic field began to propagate from a point in a charge distribution to an observer
Other uses
A process used in proofing (baking technique)
Retard (pejorative), a pejorative term for someone with a mental disability.
See also
Retarder (disambiguation)
All pages beginning with “Retard”
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