SLOW-MOVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slow-moving mean? 

• SLOW-MOVING (adjective)
  The adjective SLOW-MOVING has 1 sense:

1. moving slowly

  Familiarity information: SLOW-MOVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOW-MOVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving slowly

Context example:

slow-moving cars

Similar:

slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)

 Context examples 

I will also allude very briefly to our river journey, up a wide, slow-moving, clay-tinted stream, in a steamer which was little smaller than that which had carried us across the Atlantic.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meteorologically, slow-moving high-pressure systems accumulate pollutants and heat during the summer months.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dark matter itself consists of slow-moving, or cold, particles that come together to form structures ranging from hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the Milky Way galaxy to clumps no more massive than the heft of a commercial airplane. (In this context, cold refers to the particles' speed.)

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm or drives his lean flock to their hill-side pastures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)