retarded

  • 11retarded — adj. mentally retarded * * * [rɪ tɑːdɪd] mentally retarded …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 12retarded — [[t]rɪtɑ͟ː(r)dɪd[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone who is retarded is much less advanced mentally than most people of their age. [OLD FASHIONED] ...a special school for mentally retarded children …

    English dictionary

  • 13retarded — adjective less intelligent than other people because of slower mental development: a special programme for retarded children | mentally retarded …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 14Retarded — Retard Re*tard , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retarding}.] [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re re + tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F. retarder. See {Tardy}.] 1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 15retarded — Synonyms and related words: arrested, babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, checked, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, curbed, delayed, delayed… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 16retarded — /rəˈtadəd / (say ruh tahduhd) adjective 1. made slow or late: a drought producing a retarded crop. 2. Psychiatry Obsolescent slow in mental development, especially having an IQ of 70–85; backward. 3. Colloquial foolish or stupid …

  • 17Retarded position — Einstein s equations admit gravity wave like solutions. In the case of a moving point like mass and in the linearized limit of a weak gravity approximation these solutions of the Einstein equations are known as the Lienard Wiechert gravitational… …

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  • 18Retarded time — According to Maxwell s Equations, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum travel at the speed of light, c . Since c is finite, a photon emitted when t = t0 takes a certain amount of time to reach an observer located at a distance r from the source, so… …

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  • 19Retarded potential — The scalar or vector potential electromagnetic of a time varying current or charge distribution.These are the electromagnetic retarded potentials for an arbitrary source in free space (vacuum). They satisfy the inhomogeneous wave equations for… …

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  • 20Retarded-cool — Being briefly cool during its time, then deemed stupid by the mass populus only to come back 10 years later as kitsch. I love Vengaboys it s totally retarded cool …

    Dictionary of american slang