| 释义 |
ˈslowing, vbl. n.
[f. slow v.]
The action of becoming or making slow(er); an instance of this. Also with advs.
1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 326 This slowing of the circulation. 1879Proctor Flowers Sky iv. (1883) 15 The gradual slowing of the earth's rate of turning on her axis. 1884Nature 26 June 212/1 The pulse showed slowings after the exhibition of ergotin. 1889Skrine Mem. Thring 53 Slowing-down would not have improved its action. 1900[see control n. 3 c]. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. to Machine Translation 82 This means a slowing-up in the matching of input words with words stored in the dictionary. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment vi. 82 In the elderly, particularly those in the senium, the effects of retardation are added to the existing slowing-up process associated with aging. |