retrogradation
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The retrogradation of wheat starch in bread is responsible for staling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2016
As it cools down, the starch goes through a process called retrogradation and the molecules begin to to rearrange and realign themselves into a crystalline structure again.
From Forbes ● Nov. 23, 2011
A glance at each successive pair of dates will quickly disclose the periodical retrogradation of the eclipse epochs.
From The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers
But the advantages are all outward; if there be any inward change, it is apparently retrogradation, not advancement.
From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
The arc of retrogradation is the angular distance thus apparently traversed.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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