pullback (English, noun)
expansion: pullback (plural pullbacks)
Senses:
glosses: The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
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glosses: The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
glosses: Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.
tags: archaic
topics: business
finance
glosses: A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
glosses: A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
tags: historical
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
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glosses: 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.)
glosses: A certain move in tap dance.
Forms:
form: pullbacks
tags: plural
form: pull-back
tags: alternative