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Definition: Retard of the tide
Retard
\Re*tard"\, n.
1. Retardation; delay.
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2. A mentally retarded person. [Colloq. and disparaging]
[PJC]
3. a person who is stupid or inept, especially in social
situations. [Colloq. and disparaging]
[PJC]
Retard of the tide, or
Age of the tide, the interval
between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates
and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in
general, that any particular tide is not principally due
to the moon's transit immediately proceeding, but to a
transit which has occured some time before, and which is
said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus
distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under
Retardation. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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