EGAVE

pullback

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
  2. noun The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
  3. noun Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.
  4. noun A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
  5. noun An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
  6. noun A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
  7. noun The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
  8. noun The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.

Similar words

retreat withdraw withdrawing pullout withdrawal quit disengagement removal exit walkout

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Word family

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