Associations to the word «Retention»
Noun
- Uv
- Spectrometry
- Gel
- Viscosity
- Customer
- Utilization
- Telecommunication
- Sow
- Acquisition
- Comprehension
- Spacing
- Ligand
- Workforce
- Decrease
- Persistence
- Intake
- Liquid
- Uterus
- Hy
- Productivity
- Flushing
- Ethyl
- Exclusion
- Graduation
- Dysfunction
- Factor
- Organic
- Buffer
- Fluid
- Poly
- Correlate
- Dipole
- Pairing
- Weathering
- Cellulose
- Removal
- Opioid
- Anemia
- Rate
- Ratio
- Pond
- Increase
- Mechanism
- Accumulation
- Ammonium
- Incentive
- Hydrocarbon
- Enrollment
- Baseline
- Sulfate
- Acid
- Interaction
- Detector
- Molecule
- Hydrolysis
- Erosion
- Spasm
- Visual
- Equation
- Hallucination
- Concentration
- Digestion
- Derivative
- Calcium
- Placement
- Coefficient
- Data
- Metabolite
- Drainage
- Estrogen
- Basin
- Injection
Adjective
Wiktionary
RETENTION, noun. The act of retaining or something retained
RETENTION, noun. The act or power of remembering things
RETENTION, noun. A memory; what is retained in the mind
RETENTION, noun. (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces
RETENTION, noun. (obsolete) That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
RETENTION, noun. (obsolete) The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
RETENTION, noun. (obsolete) A place of custody or confinement.
RETENTION, noun. (legal) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
RETENTION LINE, noun. (travel) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.
Dictionary definition
RETENTION, noun. The act of retaining something.
RETENTION, noun. The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger".
RETENTION, noun. The power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.