retraction

noun
/ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/

Etymology

From re- + traction or retract + -ion.

  1. derived from tractus
  2. derived from tractio
  3. prefixed as retraction — “re + traction

Definitions

  1. An act or instance of retracting.

  2. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an…

    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…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retraction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA