retraction
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See also: rétraction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)
- An act or instance of retracting.
- 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.
- (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a printed statement to withdraw an earlier assertion
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Further reading
[edit]- Retraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia