Usually means: Withdrawal of published scientific findings.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. retractions: Merriam-Webster
  2. retractions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retractions: Vocabulary.com
  4. retractions: Wordnik
  5. retractions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retractions: Wiktionary
  7. retractions: Dictionary.com
  8. Retractions (labored breathing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. retractions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. retractions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. retractions: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retractions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. retractions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  3. retractions: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  4. retractions: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retraction)

noun:  An act or instance of retracting.
noun:  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.
noun:  (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
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