RETARDING FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retarding force mean? 

• RETARDING FORCE (noun)
  The noun RETARDING FORCE has 1 sense:

1. the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

  Familiarity information: RETARDING FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETARDING FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

drag; retarding force

Hypernyms ("retarding force" is a kind of...):

resistance (any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "retarding force"):

sonic barrier; sound barrier (the increase in aerodynamic drag as an airplane approaches the speed of sound)

windage (the retarding force of air friction on a moving object)

 Context examples 

An analytical technique used to separate a multi-component sample by applying a retarding force or gradient to a sample in a solvent stream, which drives the sample toward a thin channel wall.

(Field Flow Fractionation, NCI Thesaurus)