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Pullback vs Pullup - What's the difference?

pullback | pullup |

As nouns the difference between pullback and pullup

is that pullback is the act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal while pullup is an exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.

pullback

English

(wikipedia pullback)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
  • (film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
  • That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
  • (architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
  • (finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
  • (category theory) Given a pair of morphisms f:X\rightarrow Z and g: Y\rightarrow Z with a common codomain, Z'', their pullback is a pair of morphisms p_1:P\rightarrow X and p_2:P\rightarrow Y as well as their common domain, ''P'', such that the equation f\circ p_1 = g\circ p_2 is satisfied, and for which there is the ''universal property'' that for any other object ''Q for which there are also morphisms q_1: Q\rightarrow X, q_2: Q\rightarrow Y; there is a unique morphism u: Q\rightarrow P such that p_1\circ u = q_1 and p_2 \circ u = q_2.

    • Antonyms

    * (category theory) pushout (Webster 1913)

    pullup

    English

    Alternative forms

    *pull-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.

    • See also

    *chin-up *push-up *pull up (verb) English palindromes