SLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slower mean? 

• SLOWER (adverb)
  The adverb SLOWER has 1 sense:

1. more slowly

  Familiarity information: SLOWER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOWER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More slowly

Pertainym:

slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)

 Context examples 

They also showed slower disease progression and lived 55% longer than untreated mice (244 days versus 157 days).

(Experimental treatment slows prion disease, extends life of mice, National Institutes of Health)

There is chemistry that happens in the dark: it’s slower than the chemistry that happens in the light, but it’s there.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

The results show that earlier, slower snowmelt, triggered by warmer temperatures, reduces streamflow.

(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)

So in a way it could help reduce imports, because with slower nutrient releases, plants can absorb it by portions more suited to their metabolism, their pace of growth.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

They found that higher atmospheric density, slower rotation rates, and the presence of continents all yield higher upwelling rates.

(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS) Thinking and Fatigue: My thinking is slower than before.

(FAMS - My Thinking is Slower Than Before, NCI Thesaurus)

The migration of the labeled DNA through the gel will be slower by being bound.

(Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

The state of being slower or later.

(Delayed, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers found significantly slower brain growth overall, as well as in specific brain regions.

(Chronic high blood sugar may be detrimental to the developing brain of young children, NIH)

The sunspots move only at the pace of the sun's rotation, much slower than the movement of Mercury.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)