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retrograde
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adjective
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
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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
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verb
go back over
retrograde arguments
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verb
move in a direction contrary to the usual one
retrograding planets
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verb
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
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verb
move back
The glacier retrogrades
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adjective
going from better to worse
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adjective
(= retral)
moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
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verb
(= regress)
get worse or fall back to a previous condition
rotation
Noun
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Rotation is the action of moving around an axis or center.
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A rotation is one full turn back to the original position.
The planet Earth completes one rotation each day.