(adj) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously, Ant.proactive
(n) the act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured, Example: the court ordered a retrofit on all automobiles
(v) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture, Example: They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors
a. [ Cf. F. rétroactif. ] Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Retroactive lawor Retroactive statute (Law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. retrocedens, p. pr. ] Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Pref. retro- + choir. ] (Eccl. Arch.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar. [ 1913 Webster ]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
