Retrograde Explained
Retrograde may refer to:
Film and television
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
Other uses
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
