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"The aim of the latest revision in relation to refrigeration, now being rolled out around the world, is to improve fire retardance in case a fire starts elsewhere in the home."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2018

They increase the time constant and introduce a slowness which may be called retardance, for they diminish the rate at which currents can be transmitted.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

K R = t This is done in telephony, and hence we obtain the law of retardance, or the law by which we can calculate the distance to which speech is possible.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various