Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retract

present participle of retract

The quality of being retractable.

simple past tense and past participle of retractate

present participle of retractate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retractate

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.

plural of deformation retract

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deformation retract

(topology) A subspace such that there is a retraction onto it of the ambient space homotopic to the identity function on the ambient space.