slow down

Examples of slowing

slowing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

For the early-diagnosis group, growth trajectories suggested that autism may involve developmental arrest, slowing, or even regression.
He decided upon this particular spread of letters as a means of slowing typists down, not speeding up their work.
Although they exhibited some slowing in deliberation time, this was not significant, and contrasts with the slowing observed in depression.
These results, along with other studies, lead these researchers to conclude that slowing down the rate of speech is not necessarily helpful for comprehension purposes.
This is due to slowing down of electrons in the presence of magnetic field.
The slowing of perceived speed, however, is present with successive presentation and is greatest for slowly moving targets.
Now it is four, inserting the subcommittees and notably slowing the process, while individual entrepreneurship makes a mockery of old-style negotiating with the president.
In addition, the neutron slowing down and absorption in the transmission lines leads to blast waves inside the micro-explosion chamber.
Active learning in the absence of coordination gives central banks an incentive to follow cautious strategies, thereby slowing learning and avoiding conflict.
The author speculates that slowing down input, thus making more of it available for processing, could push learners from lexically to more syntactically driven processing.
Conduction slowing and sudden arrhythmic death in mice with cardiac-restricted inactivation of connexin43.
Cognitive slowing and working memory difficulties in chronic fatigue syndrome.
This slowing of integration and response times is important in the causation of falls.
Preventing or slowing down the development of herbicide resistance is considered beneficial.
Moreover, they corroborate evidence that psychomotor slowing may be a trait marker of bipolar illness.
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