retrograde

retrograde ('retrograde', 'opposite', 'temporally or spatially behind', from the Latin retro 'backwards, backwards' and gradus 'step'), or in some cases retrogradation has different meanings:

• Astronomy: Objects that move in a rotating system against the main direction of rotation, behave retrograde, see clockwise and retrograde
• Accounting: see retrograde valuation
• Production management: see retrograde consumption calculation
• Medicine in general: from behind or against the natural flow or direction of intervention, see course descriptions
• Dentistry: retrograde root filling , a closure of the root canal at the apex of the tooth
• Neuropsychology: memory loss for a certain period of time, before a certain event, see retrograde amnesia
• Chronometry: retrograde hands on a clock, see retrograde clock
• Geology: Rock metamorphosis with a decrease in pressure and temperature, see retrograde metamorphosis or diaphthoresis
• Sedimentology: inland shifting of a sedimentation body, see retrograding
• Chemistry: the regression of previously gelatinized starch, see retrogradation (chemistry)
• Chess: see retrograde analysis

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Wiktionary: retrograde  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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