Receding in a sentence as a noun

It's the end of the appalachian mountains with lots of sharp features cut by receding glaciers, then to top it off, it's very dense forest.

The only iOS 7 features they mention are UIDynamics and the receding keyboard—the rest are iOS 5/6 features.

An independent Scotland is about different local setup, not receding from the world.

I guess their answer would be, if there are archeological items under the ice that is receding, there must have been a time period a long time ago where the glacier didn't exist.

Now this seems to have been pushed back to an ever receding horizon and people work long long hours competing to get the next grant or next placement, to keep their heads above water right up till retirement.

As the article itself mentions, the Big Bang hypothesis did not become an accepted theory just based on the single piece of evidence that other galaxies seem to be receding from ours.

Receding in a sentence as an adjective

It's relatively wealthy and educated folks like us receding into circles with other relatively wealthy and educated folks.

Yet we have an entire vocabulary relating to mental states receding so far into the distant past that we don't know how far back language predates using language to speak about mental states.

It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors.

It could very well be possible that the oceans would normally be receding on account of other factors, yet it is still rising from the perspective of beaches because the Earth is becoming more spherical.

I remember there was no activity when I was there and it started picking up post 2008 when the banks started laying off/stopped hiring technical people...If the stock market picks up again I think that the tech scene will start receding.

Receding definitions

noun

a slow or gradual disappearance

See also: fadeout

noun

the act of becoming more distant

See also: recession

adjective

(of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back