Retraction or retract(ed) may refer to:
Academia[edit]
- Retraction in academic publishing, withdrawals of previously published academic journal articles
Mathematics[edit]
Human physiology[edit]
- 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[edit]
- A process which has led to the Neo-Shtokavian accentuation, also known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony"