Other forms: retractions
A retraction is a public statement taking back what was printed. Issue a retraction, print a retraction, demand a retraction.
It is the formal remedy for something published in error, and the standing complaint is that a retraction never reaches as many people as the original. In science, a retraction withdraws a published paper, and retraction notices are tracked because a retracted paper often keeps being cited for years. In anatomy, retraction means drawing something back. Note retract.
1nounretractionA public statement taking back what was printed.
“The newspaper printed a retraction after admitting the story was false.”
retraction is a withdrawal.
Latin retractio comes from retrahere, to draw back — re- plus trahere, to pull. Tractor, attract and abstract come from the same pulling.
Latin
tractus
Medieval Latin
tractio
English
traction
English, today
retraction
Built from
From re + traction or retract + ion. traction comes from Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA