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Contracted vs Retraction - What's the difference?

contracted | retraction |

As an adjective contracted

is (not comparable) arranged by contract; established by agreement.

As a verb contracted

is (contract).

As a noun retraction is

retraction, withdrawal.

contracted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
  • Made smaller by contraction.
  • Incurred]]; [[acquire, acquired.

    • Derived terms

    * contractedly * contractedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (contract)

    • retraction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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