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
The energy which they had expended in being "'moted" was as nothing to the delirious determination with which they fought for retrogradation.
From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra
Frightful retrogradation of human nature, all the more hideous that it contrasted with the elegance of the costume!
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
