How to pronounce“retrograde”in English
adjThe key is to always remember that Earth is moving too.
So retrograde motion was baffling to early astronomers who thought that Earth was stationary and at the center of the solar system.
In the 2nd century, Ptolemy devised a complicated system of loops and orbits within orbits to account for the apparent retrograde motion of planets.
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Definitions of “retrograde”
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
In a reverse direction; backwards.
A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
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