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 Translation for 'slowing down' from English to Spanish
VERB   to slow down | slowed down | slowed down
slowing down | slows down
ralentización {f}slowing down
desaceleración {f}slowing down
Partial Matches
abajo {adv}down
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orn.
plumón {m}
down [feathers]
agacharseto crouch down
allá abajo {adv}down there
tumbarse [echarse al suelo]to lie down
agazaparseto crouch (down)
dado vuelta {adj}upside-down
agacharseto bend down
aminorarto slow down
al revés {adv}upside down
arrodillarseto kneel (down)
ponerse de rodillasto kneel down
echarseto lie down
tranquilizarseto calm down
agazapado {adj} {past-p}crouched (down)
agazapado {adj} {past-p}huddled (down)
disminuir la velocidadto slow down
sentarseto sit (down)
tirarse [tumbarse]to lie down
más abajo {adv}further down
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  • Hadrian's policy shift was part of a trend towards the slowing down of the empire's expansion, such expansion being not closed after him (the empire's greatest extent being achieved only during the Severan dynasty), but a significant step in that direction, given the empire's overstretching.
  • Examples include Alzheimer's, amnesia, dementia, consolidation theory and the gradual slowing down of the central nervous system due to aging.
  • A possible reason for the divergence between the different studies is that the processes of convergence may not have been linear, slowing down substantially between 2000 and 2003, and resurfacing after 2003 as suggested by a recent study (2009).
  • Life extension refers to an increase in maximum or average lifespan, especially in humans, by slowing down or reversing the processes of aging through anti-aging measures.
  • Generally, test coverage tools incur computation and logging in addition to the actual program thereby slowing down the application, so typically this analysis is not done in production.

  • The drawback is that counting live neighbours becomes a hash-table lookup or search operation, slowing down simulation speed.
  • He holds the world record for the 100 metres (despite slowing down before the finish line to celebrate), the 200 metres and, along with his teammates, the 4 × 100 metres relay.
  • It is also possible to reverse this style of deception, by suggesting a powerful stroke before slowing down the hitting action to play a soft stroke.
  • The wall may have succeeded in slowing down and moderating the height of the tsunami, but it did not prevent major destruction and loss of life.
  • It is also possible to indicate a more or less gradual change in tempo, for instance with an "accelerando" (speeding up) or "ritardando" ("rit"., slowing down) marking.

  • Throughout Tuvalu are more than 900 subscribers who want to use the satellite service, with demand slowing down the speed of the entire system.
  • Throughout Tuvalu are more than 900 subscribers who want to use the satellite service, with demand slowing down the speed of the system.
  • 0%, despite significantly slowing down in the last quarter.
  • Recreational runners have been shown to increase stride length through increased knee extension rather than increased hip flexion as exhibited by elite runners, which serves instead to provide an intense braking motion with each step and decrease the rate and efficiency of knee extension during toe-off, slowing down speed.
  • Distance measured by radar will be systematically overestimated if the slight slowing down of the waves in air is not accounted for.

  • These are of less significance in a fast-neutron reactor, where most neutrons are absorbed before slowing down to this range, or in a well-moderated thermal reactor, where epithermal neutrons interact mostly with moderator nuclei, not with either fissile or fertile actinide nuclides.
  • These were steps that had different rise height or tread depth from the rest and would cause anyone running up the stairs to stumble or fall, so slowing down the attackers' progress.
  • In writing to a friend in 1609 Coppini commented that Monteverdi's pieces "require, during their performance, more flexible rests and bars that are not strictly regular, now pressing forward or abandoning themselves to slowing down [...] In them there is a truly wondrous capacity for moving the affections".
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