Retraction
/ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An act or instance of retracting. countable, uncountable
- 2 the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back wordnet
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
- 4 a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion wordnet
- 5 A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"A Ph.D. student found a fundamental flaw in research published in 2014, and upon which she was building her research, which led to a retraction by the original author."
Etymology
From re- + traction or retract + -ion.