Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of going backward; retrogradation.
- noun In astronomy, same as
retrogradation . - noun In biology, backward development; degeneration; retrograde metamorphosis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
- noun (Biol.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
retrograde development , andregressive metamorphism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
deterioration ordecline to a previous state - noun biology A
return to a lesscomplex condition
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun returning to a former state
- noun passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
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Examples
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Though a retrogression is over this year as well as people had some -! more tim e to regulate their spending as well as selling habits, Black Friday 2009 will not be so big.
Black Friday and Holiday shopping season 2009: Some facts admin 2009
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Though a retrogression is over this year as well as people had some -! more tim e to regulate their spending as well as selling habits, Black Friday 2009 will not be so big.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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This system of neumes was in some ways a retrogression from the Greek letter system, for the neumes indicated neither definite pitches nor definite tone-lengths.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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28 The rigidity with which London makes Fang's progression to civilization adhere to Buck's retrogression is intriguing, if unoriginal in the philosophical mishmash that serves as a backdrop to the episodes.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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Page 150, Volume 4 makes a strong attack on the idea of retrogression in his Methodus (pp. 308-407).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT WEISINGER 1968
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In some few cases there has been what we must call retrogression of organization.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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In some few cases there has been what we must call retrogression of organisation.
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Natural science calls retrogression of species, which shows signs of a former state already overcome, atavism.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904
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This tendency, called retrogression, has never been observed to fail, as it should, in order to free the new strain from the links with the average, while new species and new varieties are seen to be quite free from their ancestors and not linked to them by intermediates.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Act. That means that states covered by Section 5 of the Act, which includes most jurisdictions in the South, must take race into account in redistricting to make sure that they do not enact plans that cause a "retrogression" in minority voting rights.
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