• Source: Retardation

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 or similar may refer to:




Medicine and biology


Intellectual disability, a disorder characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in adaptive behaviours, was previously referred to as "mental retardation"—the term no longer in use due to the pejoration of the term "retardation" in this context
Psychomotor retardation, a slowing-down of thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual
A form of heterochrony, able to cause effects such as 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
Retardation time
Retardation, in telegraphy, a kind of distortion of signal pulses; see law of squares
Retardation, as opposed to Acceleration




Music


Retardation (music), a suspension that resolves upward instead of downward
"Retarded" (song), a 1990 single by the band The Afghan Whigs




Other uses


A process used in proofing (baking technique)
Retard (pejorative), a pejorative term for someone with a mental disability




See also


Retarder (disambiguation)
Get Retarded (disambiguation)
All pages with titles beginning with Retard

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• Alfred Baumeister
• Robert B. Edgerton
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• Kebodohan
• Alice Hazel Hayden
• H. Carl Haywood
• Pelecehan seksual
• Kejang demam
• Retardasi mental
• Deadsquad
• Retardation
• Retarder
• Intellectual disability
• Retard (pejorative)
• Retardation factor
• Psychomotor retardation
• Retarder (chemistry)
• Retarder (mechanical engineering)
• Acrylic retarder
• Retard Girl