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retractions

retractions is the plural of retraction.

Meaning of retraction

Noun

retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)

  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.

Questions about retractions

What is retractions the plural of?
Retractions is the plural of retraction.

Words near retractions in the dictionary

  1. retracting
  2. retracting rooftop
  3. retracting rooftops
  4. retraction
  5. retractioning
  6. retractions
  7. retractive
  8. retractively
  9. retractiveness
  10. retractives
  11. retractor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retractions (page history and authors); retraction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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