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Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
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slowness
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Wikipedia
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Slowness (s) is a quantity introduced in Seismology which is the reciprocal of velocity . Thus travel time of a wave is the distance that the wave travels times the slowness of the medium ( in seismology, it refers to different layers of Earth exhibiting ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slowness \Slow"ness\, n. The quality or state of being slow.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or state of being slow. 2 (context physics English) A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from slow (adj.) + -ness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness , clumsiness , ineptness , ineptitude , maladroitness ] a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: deliberation , deliberateness , unhurriedness ] lack of normal development ...
Usage examples of slowness.
At least Summer would give the mers an inviolate space in time--time to replenish their numbers with painful slowness, inevitably righting the hideous wrong their creators had done them.
The human mind, when born with sufficient talent and properly trained, then melded with the right machines to make up for the excruciating slowness of organic nerve signals, could under the right conditions outperform in the dance of combat any mere computermost of the time.
At last, in stately slowness, Romanda reclothed herself and joined the others.
Wearily, with the slowness of age and psychological fatigue, Scire sinks down into the overstuffed chair opposite the couch.
Chunks and pieces of her timbers spun out of the great waterspout hundreds of feet in the air to settle with agonizing slowness to the surface again.
Every minute since the chivaree started had passed with agonizing slowness.
Seers - half of them men, half of them women, all of them greyly deferential - and, bringing up the rear, the gangly, smiling form of Paggs Yurnvic, a Seer whom Fassin had helped teach but who, having spent less time subsequently in the slowness of actual delving than Fassin had, was now older in both adjusted time and appearance.
Count, with his eyes on the crowd, towards which Domini was walking with a sort of mischievous slowness, to whet those appetites already so voracious.
In spite of the throbbing exertions of the engines of the little paddle-boat, and the pouring foam that her wheels flung behind her, she receded with terrifying slowness from this ominous advance.
The turning point came when he and Flenser identified the trio that weighed him down with both conscience and slowness of intellect.
Then dropped in another shell with a slowness that set Bart Hodge wild, and killed the third bird, which had gone off at a difficult tangent, at a distance of at least sixty yards!
Even as she ran, Icebones was struck by the liquid slowness of her gait, the languid way her hair flopped over her face.
Savage and Long Tom watched the Nizams, fake and genuine, closely, noting that both were reviving with about the same slowness.
The road unravels with infuriating slowness, its black wall wearilessly rising in front of his headlights no matter how they twist.
Marcia still felt the chaining slowness that remained from her zombi experience.