Extraction vs Retraction - What's the difference?
extraction | retraction |
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
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(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
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 extraction and retraction
is that extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted while retraction is retraction, withdrawal.extraction
English
Noun
(en noun)- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
