pullback

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Synonyms: pull back, fullback, pull-back, fallback, callback, pushback, put back, spillback, rollback, pollack, quillback

Antonyms: pull back, fullback, pull-back, fallback, callback, pushback, put back, spillback, rollback, pollack, quillback

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Noun

The act or result of pulling back; a [[withdrawal]].
{{lb|en|film}} The act of drawing a [[camera]] back to broaden the visible scene.
{{lb|en|dated|or|archaic}} Something that [[hold back|holds back]]; a [[drawback]]; a [[hindrance]].
{{lb|en|finance}} A [[reduction]] in the [[price]] of a financial instrument after reaching a [[peak]]
{{lb|en|sports}} An attacking [[pass]] from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
{{lb|en|historical}} A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
{{lb|en|differential geometry}} The [[map]] between [[cotangent bundle]]s of [[manifolds]] corresponding to a [[smooth]] map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the [[dual]] map to the corresponding [[pushforward]].
{{lb|en|category theory}} The [[limit]] of a [[cospan]]: a [[Cartesian square]] or “pullback square”.
{{lb|en|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.)
A move in [[tap dance]] involving a backward jump landing on the balls of the feet.

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