Decrease and Retrograde

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies.
• Move in a direction contrary to the usual one.
  • usage: "retrograding planets"
• Move back.
  • usage: "The glacier retrogrades"
  • synonyms: retreat
• Go back over.
  • usage: "retrograde arguments"
  • synonyms: rehash, hash over
• Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.
  • synonyms: regress, retrogress

adjective

• Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or-for planets-around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth.
• Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma.
• Going from better to worse.
  • synonyms: retrogressive
• Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.
  • synonyms: retral

• (a.) Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
• (v.i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
• (v.i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
• (a.) Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
• (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

(DoD) The process for the movement of non-unit equipment and materiel from a forward location to a reset (replenishment, repair, or recapitalization) program or to another directed area of operations to replenish unit stocks, or to satisfy stock requirements.