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Vinony

retraction

noun

  1. act of withdrawing, cancelling, or reversing a document or statement
  2. act of withdrawing, refuting, or reversing an academic or scientific paper, or a statement therein, by its authors, their institution, or its publishers
  3. act or process of taking back
  4. posterior movement on the horizontal plane
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/

noun

Etymology: From re- + traction or retract + -ion.

  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.