retraction

See also: rétraction

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ traction.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)

1. An act or instance of retracting.
2. 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.
3. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

Derived terms

• clot retraction time

Translations

a printed statement to withdraw an earlier assertion

• Dutch: herroeping (nl)
• German: Widerrufung f
• Italian: retrazione f
• Tagalog: tamauli, pagtatamauli

mathematical function

• Finnish: retraktio, typistys
• Italian: retratto (it) m

Further reading

• Retraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• interactor, triaconter