A declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
a formal solemn objection or other declaration
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.
A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
An act or instance of retracting.