retraction

See also: rétraction

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ traction or retract +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/

• 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
• nonretraction
• postretraction
• preretraction

Translations

an act or instance of retracting — see also right of first refusal

• Spanish: rajada (es) f, retractación (es) f (retractar), retracción (es) f (retraer)

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