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Retraction or retract(ed) may refer to:

Academia

• Retraction in academic publishing, withdrawals of previously published academic journal articles

Mathematics

• Retraction (category theory)
• Retract (group theory)
• Retraction (topology)

Human physiology

• Retracted (phonetics), a sound pronounced to the back of the vocal tract, in linguistics
• Retracted tongue root, a position of the tongue during the pronunciation of a vowel, in phonetics
• Sternal retraction, a symptom of respiratory distress in humans
• Retraction (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion

Linguistics

• A process which has led to the Neo-Shtokavian accentuation, also known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony"