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The correct spelling is retraction.
How to pronounce retraction
noun
Say it like: Ret-rac-sho-n
The correct spelling is retraction. An act or instance of retracting.
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Definition
noun
- 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.
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