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Definition: RETREATMENT |
RETREATMENTNoun1. The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. |
Note: Retreatment \Re*treat"ment\, noun. The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira.. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The therapy of the same disease in a patient, with the same agent or procedure repeated after initial treatment, or with an additional or alternate measure or follow-up. It does not include therapy which requires more than one administration of a therapeutic agent or regimen. Retreatment is often used with reference to a different modality when the original one was inadequate, harmful, or unsuccessful. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RETREATMENT |
| Specialty definitions using "RETREATMENT": Bartlett table ♦ cleaner cell, closed-circuit operation ♦ scavenger cells. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In later disease, treatment failures may occur and retreatment may be necessary. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RETREATMENT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RETREATMENT" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
canal retreatment root | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RETREATMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再加工 (reprocess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | behandling af de tunge komponenter fra destillation (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opwerken van afvalprodukten (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pohjatuotteiden uudelleenkäsittely (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | reprise des produits de queue (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlammaufbereitung (retreatment of tailings), Aufbereitung der Waschberge (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επανακατεργασία υπολειμμάτων διύλισης (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ritrattamento dei prodotti di coda (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etreatmentray retratamento dos produtos de fundo (retreatment of tailings). (various references) retratamiento de residuos (retreatment of tailings), recuperación de productos residuales (retreatment of tailings). (various references) behandling av återstodsoljor (retreatment of tailings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "RETREATMENT": pretreatment. (additional references) | |
Words containing "RETREATMENT": pretreatments. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "RETREATMENT" (pronounced 'Re*treat"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-m-n-r-r-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: tetrameter. | |
-2 letters: ratemeter, treatment. | |
-3 letters: rattener, tetramer. | |
-4 letters: enterer, entreat, ratteen, reenter, retreat, ternate, terrane, terreen, terrene, treater. | |
-5 letters: attent, earner, entera, entree, errant, eterne, marten, matter, meaner, meeter, metate, natter, nearer, neater, netter, ranter, ratten, ratter, reamer, reearn, remate, remeet, rename, renter, reteam, retear, retene, tarter, tatter, tearer, teemer, teener, teeter, tenter, terete, termer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-m-n-r-r-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: pretreatment. | |
+2 letters: overtreatment, pretreatments. | |
+3 letters: overtreatments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 52 45 41 54 4D 45 4E 54 |
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