different between retraction vs undoing

English

Etymology

re- +? traction

Noun

retraction (countable and uncountable, plural retractions)

1. An act or instance of retracting.
2. 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.
3. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

Translations

Further reading

• Retraction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• interactor, triaconter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?du???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo +? -ing.

Noun

undoing (plural undoings)

1. The act of loosening or unfastening
2. Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.

   His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.
3. Annulment; reversal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English und?nde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andad?ndz, present participle of *andad?n? (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).

Verb

undoing

1. present participle of undo

Anagrams

• ounding