<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.</li><li>of or relating to a recessive.</li><li>(of an accent) showing a tendency to recede from the end toward the beginning of a word.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>that one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same cell or organism.</li><li>the trait or character determined by such an allele.</li></ul>