Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who retards; that which serves as a hindrance, impediment, or cause of retardation.
- noun An obstruction, usually in the form of a twisted piece of sheet-metal, placed in a boiler-flue to retard the hot gases and make them give up their heat to the water in the boiler.
- noun A device, such as a dash-pot, for checking the too rapid motion of any mechanism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, retards.
- noun (Steam Boiler) Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire.
- noun (Photog.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something which
retards orslows .
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Examples
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Then Tartov asked, "Lew, does Earth have something called a retarder-field?"
World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966
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A retarder is a specially designed refrigerator that
Charlottesville Blogs Patience_Crabstick 2010
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Analysts also said LG's recent release of 3D TVs using its new display technology, called film-patterned retarder, or FPR, and a seasonally higher demand for air-conditioners, will help boost the company's overall earnings in the current quarter.
LG Electronics Swings to Loss Jung-Ah Lee 2011
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 I had mixed up blue-violet paint with gel retarder for a block print, so I rolled out the rest of it and used some rubber-tipped tools to scrape away branches, forming the monoprint of a bare-leafed tree.
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Halliburton said that the final test in April was performed on a slurry formulation that included eight gallons of retarder per 100 sacks of cement and that the test showed that the foam mixture was stable.
New questions on stability of cement in gulf oil well before explosion Steven Mufson 2010
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I printed a stamp of the dandelion silhouettes with pigment ink, and while waiting for that to dry, mixed some interference red paint with gel retarder.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Nightmares in Pleasant Dreams 2009
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 I had mixed up blue-violet paint with gel retarder for a block print, so I rolled out the rest of it and used some rubber-tipped tools to scrape away branches, forming the monoprint of a bare-leafed tree.
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I printed a stamp of the dandelion silhouettes with pigment ink, and while waiting for that to dry, mixed some interference red paint with gel retarder.
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Passive TVs use a patterned-retarder film, which divides the screen into alternating lines, much like an interlaced image.
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For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and commercially made rubber stamps.
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