Retrograde

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Retrograde may refer to:

Film and television

  • Retrograde (2004 film), a film by Christopher Kulikowski
  • Retrograde (2022 American film), a documentary film by Matthew Heineman
  • Retrograde (2022 Canadian film), a drama film by Adrian Murray
  • Retrograde (TV series), a 2020 Australian television comedy series

Medicine and science

  • Retrograde amnesia, a loss of memory-access to past events
  • Retrograde ejaculation, the redirection of ejaculated semen into the urinary bladder
  • Retrograde metamorphism, the recrystallization of rocks under decreasing pressure and/or temperature
  • Retrograde motion, an orbit in the opposite direction of the rotation of the central mass or most other satellites
  • Retrograde signaling, the process where a signal travels backwards from a target source to its original source
  • Apparent retrograde motion, the apparent motion of planets as observed from a particular vantage point

Music and entertainment

  • Retrograde (album), a 2016 album by Crown the Empire
  • Retrograde (Dinah Jane song), a 2019 single by Dinah Jane
  • Retrograde (James Blake song), a 2013 single from the album Overgrown
  • Retrograde (music), the playing back of a passage of notes
  • Retrograde (Pearl Jam song), a 2019 single by American rock band Pearl Jam
  • Retrograde inversion, a type of musical permutation
  • Retro/Grade, a video game developed by 24 Caret Games

Other uses

  • Retrograde analysis, in chess problems
  • Reverse dictionary, sometimes called retrograde dictionary

See also

  • Retrogradation, a landward change in position of the front of a river delta with time
  • Retrogradation (starch), the gelatinization of starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves
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