Usually means: Substance used to slow combustion.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word retardant:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. retardant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retardant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retardant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. retardant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. retardant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Retardant, retardant: Wordnik
  7. retardant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. retardant: Wiktionary
  9. retardant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. retardant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. retardant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. retardant: Dictionary.com
  13. Retardant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. retardant: Rhymezone
  15. retardant: Free Dictionary
  16. retardant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. -retardant, retardant: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. -retardant, retardant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -retardant, retardant: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retardant)

adjective:  (often in combination) Serving to impede (slow down) the action of something
noun:  (often in combination) Something that serves to retard (slow down) the action of something

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