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retraction

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/

The English word “retraction” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

Etymology

From re- + traction or retract + -ion.

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