retraction

Meaning

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

Frequency

29k
Etymology

From re- + traction.

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