retarding force

1. 1.

   the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

   Synonymsdrag

   Broaderresistance

   Narrowersonic barrierwindage

Questions about retarding force

What does retarding force mean?

retarding force means "the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid".

What is another word for retarding force?

Close synonyms include drag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retarding force a common word?

retarding force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.