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 Translation for 'to slow down' from English to Greek
VERB   to slow down | slowed down | slowed down
slowing down | slows down
SYNO to decelerate | to decompress | to loosen up | ...
to slow downεπιβραδύνω
to slow downκόβω ταχύτητα
slow {adj}αργός
down {adv}προς τα κάτω
down {adv}κάτω
to write downσημειώνω
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Usage Examples English
  • Over the years, a number of traffic calming schemes have been introduced around the island to get motorists to slow down.
  • Heavy water is used in certain types of nuclear reactors, where it acts as a neutron moderator to slow down neutrons so that they are more likely to react with the fissile uranium-235 than with uranium-238, which captures neutrons without fissioning.
  • Treatment with DMARDs is designed to slow down the progression of RA by initiating an adaptive immune response, in part by CD4+ T helper (Th) cells, specifically Th17 cells.
  • With helicopters these tasks can be accomplished faster and less dangerously, and without the need for the frigate to slow down or change course.
  • A distraught Maggie sacrifices herself to slow down the Duke.

  • For instance, one stage of a production process may temporarily work at a slower pace, forcing other stages to slow down.
  • The intakes had to slow down supersonic inlet air to subsonic speeds with high pressure recovery to ensure efficient operation at cruising speed while providing low distortion levels (to prevent engine surge) and maintaining high efficiency for all likely ambient temperatures to be met in cruise.
  • The users are also required to learn the skill of "feathering the spool" with their thumb to apply direct tactile friction on the spool surface to slow down or even stop it from spinning.
  • By introducing these intracellular polymers to a biological system and manipulating the crowdedness of a cell, scientists may be able to slow down the rate of biological reactions in the system.
  • The bulge of the loading coils could not easily pass through the cable laying apparatus of cable ships and the ship had to slow down during the laying of a loading coil.

  • Some serotypes of the dengue virus appear to have mechanisms to slow down this process.
  • A study of fruit fly wings designed to understand how the wings produce lift was performed using a large tank of mineral oil and wings 100 times larger than actual size, in order to slow down the wing beats and make the vortices generated by the insect wings easier to see and understand.
  • Parachutes are used to slow down vehicles travelling very fast.
  • Tachyons would exhibit the unusual property of increasing in speed as their energy decreases, and would require infinite energy to slow down to the speed of light.
  • The administration launched plans to open a university in an attempt to slow down the brain drain that has occurred.

  • Sway is also used on the second step to make the step longer and also to slow down the momentum by bringing the feet together.
  • If a runner is gasping for breath or feels exhausted while running, it may be beneficial to slow down or try a shorter distance for a few weeks.
  • Since the incubation period of prion diseases is so long, an effective drug does not need to eliminate all prions, but simply needs to slow down the rate of exponential growth.
  • These inexpensive false targets (designed to be of a similar shape and size as genuine mines) are intended to slow down the process of mine clearance: a mine-hunter is forced to investigate each suspicious sonar contact on the sea bed, whether it is real or not.
  • Most fission reactors use a neutron moderator to slow down, or "thermalize" the neutrons that are emitted by nuclear fission so that they are more easily captured, causing further fission.

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