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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
retrospect
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
seem
▪ He seems in retrospect the Mahatma's fated antagonist.
▪ But it does not seem that way in retrospect.
▪ The sick smile that Odilo sported throughout his wedding day seems, in retrospect, all too appropriate.
▪ Likewise, not having raised a single cent in campaign money seems, in retrospect, a mistake.
▪ There would seem in retrospect to have been two primary reasons.
▪ That moment seems in retrospect to have been more exciting than any of the films that followed.
▪ It seems in retrospect that the Task Force in Merseyside was driven by Heseltine's particular vision of urban regeneration.
▪ Especially, it seemed, in retrospect.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
▪ In retrospect, he said, he did not realize how hard it would be to keep them happy.
▪ In retrospect, they were spinning straw into gold.
▪ It was never our intention to hurt anyone and it occurs to us in retrospect that the ad was insensitive.
▪ Popular fiction often becomes more important in retrospect.
▪ So you won, Ragu, and in retrospect I think it was right that you did.
▪ There would seem in retrospect to have been two primary reasons.
▪ Yet, in retrospect, Glam dovetailed exactly with developments in consumer capitalism.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retrospect

Retrospect \Re"tro*spect\, v. i. [L. retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See Spy, and cf. Expect.] To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

It may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
--A. Hamilton.

Retrospect

Retrospect \Re"tro*spect\, n. A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
--Cowper.

We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy.
--Landor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
retrospect

c.1600, "a regard or reference" (to something), from Latin retrospectum, past participle of retrospicere "look back," from retro- "back" (see retro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "survey of past events" is from 1660s.

Wiktionary
retrospect

n. consideration of past times vb. To look or refer back to; to reflect on

WordNet
retrospect
  1. n. contemplation of things past; "in retrospect"

  2. v. look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events, etc.); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride" [syn: review, look back]

Wikipedia
Retrospect (Star Trek: Voyager)

"Retrospect" is the 85th episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, airing on the UPN network. It is the 17th episode of the fourth season.

In this episode, Voyagers Doctor helps Seven of Nine interpret repressed memories, leading to an accusation of assault against an alien arms dealer.

Retrospect

Retrospect may refer to:

  • Retrospect (software), a backup software application
  • "Retrospect" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Voyager, a science fiction TV series
Retrospect (software)

Retrospect is a family of backup software applications for the Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Its maker Dantz Development Corporation was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004. In May 2010 Retrospect was sold to Roxio/ Sonic Solutions. In 2011, development of Retrospect was turned over to a privately held company operating under the name Retrospect, Inc. The first version from this company, Retrospect 9, was released on November 2, 2011.

The most common variants are:

  • Retrospect Express HD, supports backup to local and remote hard drives
  • Retrospect Express, adds support for removable media,
  • Retrospect, adds tape drives and network backup support. In the network backup scenario a backup host pulls data from multiple networked workstations.

Retrospect is both available for retail sale, and is often bundled with an external hard drive (though often the limited Retrospect Express version).

Retrospect Express was the successor to Dantz's DiskFit Direct backup product, which came bundled with Iomega's Zip 100 drive.

Retrospect was originally developed for the Macintosh and provided network backup support over Appletalk networks.

Retrospect has backup clients for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare.

Retrospect (Sevendust album)

Retrospect features a behind-the-scenes look at Sevendust, with interviews, video clips and live performances. All of the band's music video clips are included, along with exclusive TV performances from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Woodstock '99, Farmclub. Some of the interviews focus on the band discussing their past recording processes, as well as their then-anticipated fall release of Animosity.

Retrospect (Epica album)

Retrospect is the third live album released by the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica in celebration of their tenth anniversary. The recorded live show took part in Eindhoven, Netherlands on March 23, 2013 at the Klokgebouw and was sold out. Because of the great demand by international fans, Epica announced a live stream, called the Retrostream, on March 4, 2013. Epica performed on stage with the same orchestra that accompanied Epica in the recording of the live album The Classical Conspiracy: the 70-piece Extended Hungarian Remenyi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Miskolc National Theatre. The expanded ensemble mostly played Epica songs, including a whole new song called Retrospect, especially written for this live show with the same name. Like on The Classical Conspiracy, Epica played some classical music, excerpts from operas and movie soundtracks, however not as many as on the aforementioned show. The album was released on CD, DVD and Blu-ray on November 8, 2013 through Nuclear Blast Records. Before the release of the show on Blu-ray and DVD, the show premiered at two movie theaters: Mathäser Multiplex Kino in Munich, Germany (6 November) and Service Bioscoop Zien in Eindhoven, Netherlands (7 November). On the day of the release, the show was shown in a Belgian movie theater: Kinepolis in Kortrijk, Belgium. The day after, the show was shown a final time in a movie theater: Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City (9 November).

Usage examples of "retrospect".

Reschke parks the car and the two of them discuss the reversibility of historical facts, I have to survey in retrospect the United Cemeteries, leveled by government decree, giving their acreage: An area circumscribed on the one hand by the Polyclinic and the Engineering School and on the other by St.

In retrospect, the sterilization program served as an early paradigm for techniques of annihilation and the public policy of sanitizing the culture against biological and genetic threat.

Grimsley thought that the unanticipated battle they had just fought against a mix of Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen might, in retrospect, turn out to be one of the major battles of the war.

The darkness and silence left over it by his unrepented offence, gave it, in his retrospect, a threatening aspect--out of which at any moment might burst the hidden enemy, the thing that might be known, and must not be known!

The kink is one of those anomalies that reinforces a theory because, in retrospect, it should have been predictable.

Cases that, in retrospect, may seem aberrant or even ludicrous censorial excesses sometimes became guideposts by which the censored party decided what the victors construed to be within the boundaries of acceptable expression.

The sleepy old ranch cosily nestled among the encinal oaks revived a hundred memories, some sad, some happy, many of which have returned in retrospect during lonely hours since.

She spent her high school years and the first three semesters at Kingwood Community College in a series of foster homes where she was cared for adequately enough but never felt comfortable and certainly not loved, though she supposed, in retrospect, that it was more her fault than that of her wards.

Seen in retrospect, her evening with Gordon Longford appeared neither so glamorous in the early hours, nor so melodramatic in the latter part as it had seemed to her on her return home.

What happened then was in retrospect sufliaently impressive to onhreight any suspicion of obfuscatory technique.

No doubt there ofttimes is much reason for shame and pain in our retrospects.

We have managed to deepen our understanding by breaking free of certain conclusions that, in retrospect, were a consequence of perturbative approximate analyses rather than true string physics.

RETROSPECT Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass.

It is only in retrospect that it seems we overreacted to the fact that the hospital held enemy sick and wounded.

In retrospect, that flurry might be interpreted as being only marginally premature, anticipating by less than a decade the reawakening that would bring the ancient cults to the fore.