Pullback vs. Withdrawal

Pullbacknoun

The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.

Pullbacknoun

(film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.

Pullbacknoun

That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

Pullbacknoun

(architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.

Pullbacknoun

(finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak

Pullbacknoun

(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.

Pullbacknoun

(historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.

Pullbacknoun

(differential geometry) 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.

Pullbacknoun

(category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.

Pullbacknoun

(category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)

Pullbacknoun

That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

Pullbacknoun

The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

Pullbacknoun

a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back;

Pullbacknoun

(military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops);

Pullback

In mathematics, a pullback is either of two different, but related processes: precomposition and fiber-product. Its dual is a pushforward.

Withdrawalnoun

Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.

Withdrawalnoun

A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.

Withdrawalnoun

A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance, usually a toxin such as heroin, to which a patient is addicted is withheld. Sometimes used with the substance as modifier

Withdrawalnoun

An act of withdrawing.

Withdrawalnoun

The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Withdrawalnoun

a retraction of a previously held position

Withdrawalnoun

the act of taking out money or other capital

Withdrawalnoun

the act of withdrawing

Withdrawalnoun

avoiding emotional involvement

Withdrawalnoun

formal separation from an alliance or federation

Withdrawalnoun

the termination of drug taking

Withdrawalnoun

the action of withdrawing something

Withdrawalnoun

an act of taking money out of an account.

Withdrawalnoun

the action of ceasing to participate in an activity

Withdrawalnoun

the process of ceasing to take an addictive drug.