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Detour vs Retraction - What's the difference?

detour | retraction |

As nouns the difference between detour and retraction

is that detour is detour while retraction is retraction, withdrawal.

detour

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a detour.
  • To direct or send on a detour.

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    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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