Astriction vs Retraction - What's the difference?
astriction | retraction |
The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
(medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
(obsolete) constipation
(obsolete) astringency
(legal, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)
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.
(mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
As nouns the difference between astriction and retraction
is that astriction is the act of binding; restriction; obligation while retraction is retraction, withdrawal.astriction
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