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noun

Retention n.

The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

The power of retaining; retentiveness. "No woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention."

That which contains something, as a tablet. (R.)

The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.

Place of custody or confinement.

(Law) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.

Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

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Etymology of 'Retention'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retention" Quotes from Famous Books

... appropriately be termed a "reference-mollusc", is in the main equivalent to a Gaussian four-dimensional co-ordinate system chosen arbitrarily. That which gives the "mollusc" a certain comprehensibility as compared with the Gauss co-ordinate system is the (really unjustified) formal retention of the separate existence of the space co-ordinates as opposed to the time co-ordinate. Every point on the mollusc is treated as a space-point, and every material point which is at rest relatively to it as at rest, so long as the mollusc is considered as reference-body. ...

— Relativity: The Special and General Theory • Albert Einstein

... limestone prevailed, but the exposed portion seemed to be formed by a rearrangement of the broken fragments of older rocks, which were visible in the gullies. The water at which we halted appeared to be supplied by a spring, and not to be the retention of rainwater. At 3.15 p.m. proceeded in a westerly direction in search of the principal branch of the creek, which we reached at 4.0 p.m., but found it much reduced in size, not exceeding fifteen yards in ...

— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... inferred from the fact that Belgium and France were invaded after the war broke out, or even from the present demand among German parties that the territories occupied should be retained. If it could be maintained that the seizure of territory during war, or even its retention after it, is evidence that the territory was the object of the war, it would be legitimate also to infer that the British Empire has gone to war to annex German colonies, a conclusion which Englishmen would probably reject with indignation. ...

— The European Anarchy • G. Lowes Dickinson

... can see the combination of Christian and pagan elements so clearly as to be able to calculate the moral and spiritual effect of each. Thus we have in the early Greek mythology much of real paganism involved in the retention of the old and earth-bound gods which attached themselves to the nobler Olympians as they came, and dragged them down ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... cause of disease. There is only one disease, but many modifications. Digestion and assimilation explained. Evil effects of the retention of waste. The horrors of faecal impaction. How auto infection is accomplished. The mysteries of the circulation. Disease shown to be ...

— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

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