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tardation

tardation noun: the act of slowing down or delaying.

Noun

tardation

  1. (obsolete) The act of slowing down or delaying.

Origin of tardation

Latin tardatio, from tardare, tardatum (“to retard, delay”), from tardus (“slow”).

Questions about tardation

What does tardation mean?
Tardation means the act of slowing down or delaying.
What part of speech is tardation?
Tardation is a noun.

Words near tardation in the dictionary

  1. tard wrangled
  2. tard wrangler
  3. tard wranglers
  4. tard wrangles
  5. tard wrangling
  6. tardation
  7. tardative
  8. tardbrain
  9. tardbrains
  10. tardeada
  11. tardeadas

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