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How to pronounce “retract”

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Pronunciation guide for retract

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of retract with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Designing a 3D Printerextrude and then retract a little before
Definition summary: (transitive)

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Designing a 3D Printer

extrude and then retract a little before

[Verb]
(transitive)
(intransitive) To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
[Noun]
An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
(group theory) A subgroup of a given group such that there is a surjective endomorphism from the ambient group to the subgroup which is constant on the subgroup; in this case the subgroup is a retract of the ambient group. In symbols:
H
{\displaystyle H}
in
G
{\displaystyle G}
is a retract of
G
{\displaystyle G}
if there exists a surjective homomorphism
σ
{\displaystyle \sigma }
from
G
{\displaystyle G}
to
H
{\displaystyle H}
with
σ
|
H
=
id
{\displaystyle \sigma |_{H}=\operatorname {id} }
.
(topology) The target of a retraction.
Synonym of retreat (“an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing”).