Redaction vs. Retraction

Redactionnoun

(countable) Edited or censored version of a document.

Redactionnoun

(countable) The change or changes made while editing.

Redactionnoun

(uncountable) The process of editing or censoring.

Redactionnoun

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

Redactionnoun

putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

Redactionnoun

the act of putting something in writing

Redaction

Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple sources of texts are combined and altered slightly to make a single document. Often this is a method of collecting a series of writings on a similar theme and creating a definitive and coherent work.

Retractionnoun

An act or instance of retracting.

Retractionnoun

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.

Retractionnoun

(mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.

Retractionnoun

The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

Retractionnoun

The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.

Retractionnoun

The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.

Retractionnoun

a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion

Retractionnoun

the act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back;