Usually means: Reversion to a former state.
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  1. retrogradation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. retrogradation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. retrogradation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retrogradation: Wordnik
  5. retrogradation: Wiktionary
  6. retrogradation: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Retrogradation, retrogradation: Dictionary.com
  8. Retrogradation (starch), Retrogradation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Retrogradation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. retrogradation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Retrogradation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. retrogradation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. retrogradation: Free Dictionary
  14. Retrogradation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrogradation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrogradation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retrogradation: Medical dictionary

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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (retrogradation)

noun:  Motion in a retrograde manner.
noun:  Decline, degradation.
noun:  (chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.

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