Definition of Regrede

1. v. i. To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.

Definition of Regrede

1. Verb. To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. ¹

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Definition of Regrede

1. to retrograde [v REGREDED, REGREDING, REGREDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regrede

regrateries
regraters
regratery
regrates
regrating
regrator
regrators
regraze
regrazed
regrazes
regrazing
regrease
regreased
regreases
regreasing
regrede (current term)
regreded
regredes
regredience
regreding
regreen
regreened
regreening
regreens
regreet
regreeted
regreeting
regreets
regress
regressand

Literary usage of Regrede

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Papers by George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Ernest William Brown (1908)
"Now let us call the angular velocity with which the nodes of the orbit would regrede on the ecliptic, if the earth were spherical, the nodal velocity. ..."

2. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1899)
"Clairaut gave his name to an artifice for expressing symbolically that the nodes of the Moon's orbit regrede. The artifice seems simple enough to those to ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"We have seen (see PERTURBATIONS) that the node of a satellite's orbit tends always to regrede on the plane of relative motion of the primary and the ..."

4. The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition by Richard Anthony Proctor (1873)
"... normal force causes the perigee to advance, while if she is anywhere on the arc M3 M5 M7, the perigee is caused to regrede. And by reasoning precisely ..."

5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1873)
"Its eccentricity will wax and wane ; its inclination will increase and diminish ; its line of apsides will advance and regrede, advancing on the whole ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"We have seen (see PERTURBATIONS) that the node of a satellite's orbit tends always to regrede on the plane of relative motion of the primary and the ..."

7. Saturn and Its System: Containing Discussions of the Motions (real and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1865)
"Saturn's mean sidereal period contains 10759-2197 days, but in each year the nodes of the ring regrede through an arc of 3"-145 ; and therefore in Saturn's ..."

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