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Retrograde may refer to:

Film and television

• Retrograde (2004 film), a film by Christopher Kulikowski
• Retrograde (2022 American film), a documentary film by Matthew Heineman
• Retrograde (2022 Canadian film), a drama film by Adrian Murray
• Retrograde (TV series), a 2020 Australian television comedy series

Medicine and science

• Retrograde amnesia, a loss of memory-access to past events
• Retrograde ejaculation, the redirection of ejaculated semen into the urinary bladder
• Retrograde metamorphism, the recrystallization of rocks under decreasing pressure and/or temperature
• Retrograde motion, an orbit in the opposite direction of the rotation of the central mass or most other satellites
• Retrograde signaling, the process where a signal travels backwards from a target source to its original source
• Apparent retrograde motion, the apparent motion of planets as observed from a particular vantage point

Music and entertainment

• Retrograde (album), a 2016 album by Crown the Empire
• Retrograde (Dinah Jane song), a 2019 single by Dinah Jane
• Retrograde (James Blake song), a 2013 single from the album Overgrown
• Retrograde (music), the playing back of a passage of notes
• Retrograde (Pearl Jam song), a 2019 single by American rock band Pearl Jam
• Retrograde (play), a 2023 play
• Retrograde inversion, a type of musical permutation
• Retro/Grade, a video game developed by 24 Caret Games

Other uses

• Retrograde analysis, in chess problems
• Reverse dictionary, sometimes called retrograde dictionary
• Retrograde indication, in horology, a type of complication

See also

• Retrogradation, a landward change in position of the front of a river delta with time
• Retrogradation (starch), the gelatinization of starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves