retraction
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See also: rétraction
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)
- An act or instance of retracting.
- A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
- (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Translations[edit]
a printed statement to withdraw an earlier assertion
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Further reading[edit]
- Retraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia