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Meanings of slowness in English
Spanish
torpeza Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities.
Synonyms
Examples for "retardation"
Examples for "retardation"
1
No case with gross carpal bone age retardation has been reported previously.
2
Disturbed interactions were associated with later cognitive retardation and enhanced behavior problems.
3
We conclude that fetal growth retardation does not protect against severe RDS.
4
Newborns with intra-uterine growth retardation, rhesus isoimmunization or surgical procedures were excluded.
5
The main cause of this retardation may be told before proceeding further.
1
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
2
EUFOR's intentional tech backwardness reminds me of the Aussies in East Timor.
3
Come, princess. The two hurried away, leaving Henrietta to ponder her backwardness.
4
He began to thaw out, though he did not lose his backwardness.
5
I don't think tradition or any kind of backwardness should stop women.
1
Without close examination and thorough tests, illiteracy generally passes as subnormality.
2
Cone ERG subnormality to red flash in CRVO eyes compared with normal fellow eyes may be a predictor of later development of ocular neovascularisation.
3
Wallen, in his book "Problems of Subnormality," draws attention to three basic phases of the problem of the feeble-minded:-
1
Fragile X Syndrome is the most common form of hereditary mental retardation.
2
Some of the ASD regions were also common to mental retardation loci.
3
One patient had multisystem disease; two others had mental retardation with ataxia.
4
Clinical manifestations included moderate mental retardation, destructive behavior, and minor physical anomalies.
5
Clinically, the patient presented with mild mental retardation and minor physical anomalies.
Usage of slowness in English
1
And that often meant that events moved with an extraordinarily deliberate slowness.
2
Perhaps more important was the mere slowness of the diffusion of ideas.
3
That first part of the long night march moved with maddening slowness.
4
The market is going through a typical year-end bout of pre-holidy slowness.
5
But that low-tech approach might flounder at businesses due to its slowness.
6
Now he complained to the Duke about the slowness of the task.
7
The curtain rose, and with the slowness of life the act proceeded.
8
The minutes wore away with agonizing slowness, and still they discovered nothing.
9
She unconsciously blamed the slowness of the Italian soldier for his injury.
10
Contrast with this toilsome slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
11
Everything and everybody in Doctors' Commons seemed the very incarnation of slowness.
12
Swiftness or slowness in duty is very much a matter of habit.
13
Touch that and with majestic slowness and certainty the mighty mass turns.
14
As a student he had failed rhetoric simply through slowness of mind.
15
Their complaints about the slowness and sloppiness of the service were loud.
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Occasionally he muttered impatiently to himself at the slowness of his progress.
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Translations for slowness
Russian
Portuguese
Slowness through the time
Slowness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common