retraction

See also: rétraction

English

Etymology

re- +‎ traction

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.

Translations

a printed statement to withdraw an earlier assertion

• Dutch: herroeping
• Italian: retrazione f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Tagalog: tamauli, pagtatamauli

mathematical function

• Italian: retratto (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• Retraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• interactor, triaconter