GDict

retraction

ri'trækʃәn3 senses · 52 ms
Level C2
local copy0 msLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0Wiktionary contributors
noun/ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/
  1. 1

    An act or instance of retracting.countableuncountable

  2. 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.countableuncountable

  3. 3

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

Nearby entries