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Retarder   Listen
noun
Retarder  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, retards.
2.
(Steam Boiler) Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire.
3.
(Photog.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action.






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"Retarder" Quotes from Famous Books



... Occupe-toi du soin de perfectionner tes gouvernemens, de corriger tes lois, de rformer tes abus, de rgler tes moeurs, et ferme pour toujours les yeux ces vraies chimres, qui depuis tant de sicles n'ont servi qu' retarder tes progrs vers la science vritable et t'carter de la ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing



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