Associations to the word «Retraction»
Adverb
Wiktionary
RETRACTION, noun. An act or instance of retracting.
RETRACTION, noun. 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.
RETRACTION, noun. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Dictionary definition
RETRACTION, noun. A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.
RETRACTION, noun. The act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.