Associations to the word «Retrograde»

RETROGRADE, adjective. Directed backwards, retreating; reverting especially inferior state, declining; inverse, reverse; movement opposite to normal or intended motion, often circular motion.

RETROGRADE, adjective. Counterproductive to a desired outcome.

RETROGRADE, adjective. (astronomy) (of a body orbiting another) In the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.

RETROGRADE, noun. A degenerate person.

RETROGRADE, noun. (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last and what is played last in the original melody is played first.

RETROGRADE, verb. (intransitive) To move backwards; to recede; to retire; to decline; to revert.

RETROGRADE, verb. (intransitive) (astronomy) To show retrogradation.

RETROGRADE AMNESIA, noun. The loss of memories from the period leading up to the amnesic episode

RETROGRADE INVERSION, noun. (music) A technique where the composer will take the inversion of the tone row, and write that backwards, thus creating a retrograded inversion of the original note row.

RETROGRADE INVERSION, noun. (music) a composition technique where the composer inverts the retrograde of a melody or makes the retrograde of the inversion of the melody, using only notes in the same key as the original melody

RETROGRADE INVERSIONS, noun. Plural of retrograde inversion

RETROGRADE MOTION, noun. (astronomy) Motion of a body (either real or apparent) in a direction opposite to that of its normal motion, or to that of other similar or related bodies

RETROGRADE NEUROTRANSMITTER, noun. A neurotransmitter that is released from a postsynaptic neuron to the axon of a presynaptic neuron.

RETROGRADE, verb. Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies.

RETROGRADE, verb. Move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets".

RETROGRADE, verb. Move back; "The glacier retrogrades".

RETROGRADE, verb. Go back over; "retrograde arguments".

RETROGRADE, verb. Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.

RETROGRADE, adjective. Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth.

RETROGRADE, adjective. Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma.

RETROGRADE, adjective. Going from better to worse.

RETROGRADE, adjective. Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.