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Adjective
/ˈretrəˌgrād/,
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Directed or moving backward,
  1. Directed or moving backward
    • - a retrograde flow
  2. Reverting to an earlier and inferior condition
    • - to go back on the progress that has been made would be a retrograde step
  3. (of the order of something) Reversed; inverse
    • - the retrograde form of these inscriptions
  4. (of amnesia) Involving the period immediately preceding the causal event

  5. (of a metamorphic change) Resulting from a decrease in temperature or pressure

  6. (of the apparent motion of a planet) In a reverse direction from normal (from east to west), resulting from the relative orbital progress of the earth and the planet

  7. (of the orbit or rotation of a planet or planetary satellite) In a reverse direction from that normal in the solar system

Verb
  1. Go back in position or time
    • - our history must retrograde for the space of a few pages
  2. Revert to an earlier and usually inferior condition
    • - people cannot habitually trample on law and justice without retrograding toward barbarism
  3. Show retrogradation
    • - all the planets will at some time appear to retrograde
Noun
  1. A degenerate person

  1. moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
  2. move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
  3. move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
  4. of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
  5. move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
  6. going from better to worse
  7. Retrograde is a 2004 sci-fi action film directed by Christopher Kulikowski and starring Dolph Lundgren. It was shot in Italy.
  8. Thalamus Ltd (also known as Thalamus) was a British computer game developer that published titles for a number of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  9. A degenerate person; To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert; To show retrogradation; Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion; ...
  10. (retrogradely) With a backward motion
  11. Used to describe a pointer hand on a watch dial (often a subdial), which returns to zero at the end of a prescribed period. ...
  12. Apparent westward movement off a planet with respect to the stars.
  13. The rotation or orbital motion of an object in a clockwise direction when viewed from the north pole of the ecliptic; moving in the opposite sense from the great majority of solar system bodies.
  14. Planets in retrograde look like they are moving backwards. The energy from a retrograde can cause communication mishaps such as when Mercury is Retrograde, or can derail love when Venus is in retrograde.
  15. Said of a hand (s.) that, instead of making a revolution of 360 before starting a new measurement, moves on an arc scale (generally of 90 to 180) and at the end of its trip comes back instantaneously. ...
  16. When the planets appear to be going backwards.
  17. From the observer's point of view on Earth, the sun, moon, planets TT , and stars appear to move east-west across the sky. ...
  18. Refers to faces meeting at a vertex which circle back the opposite way around the vertex with respect to other faces. Polygons represented as n/d are retrograde when the fraction is greater than a half, eg the pentagram 5/2 is not retrograde, but written as 5/3 it is. ...
  19. In contrapuntal writing, a device whereby the notes of a melody are run in reverse. See twelve-tone method.
  20. the simplest definition is "backwards." This term is seen most often in the context of counterpoint where a motif that has been established in one voice is sounded backwards in another voice
  21. An orderly retreat usually designed to move away from an enemy.
  22. A movement or influence acting from the axon terminal toward the cell body.
  23. A term used to describe hands that can move both forwards (clockwise) and backwards (counter-clockwise) following an arc with a limited range.
  24. The act of taking a sequence of choreography and reversing the order from back to front.
  25. Going a reverse direction against flow e.g. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogram (ERCP)