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Recession
- noun - a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- the act of ceding back
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
Recessive
- adjective - (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical
- an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical
- of or pertaining to a recession
Recission
- noun - (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent"
Recusance
- unknown - Refusal to conform to standard behaviour
Recusancy
- noun - refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England
Recusants
- noun - someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Recussion
- - The act of beating or striking back.
Red Scare
- noun - a period of general fear of communists
Red Shift
- noun - (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths; generally interpreted as the Doppler effect resulting from the velocity at which they recede as the universe expands
- (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding
Red-Short
- - Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.