pullback

See also: pull back and pull-back

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Etymology

    Deverbal from pull back.

    Noun

    pullback (plural pullbacks)

    1. The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
    2. (film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
    3. (dated or archaic) Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.
    4. (finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak.
      • 2026 October 17, Katie Martin, “Recent ructions were a dress rehearsal for an AI bubble burst”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
        The good news for investors who struggle to shake the feeling that we are overdue a big pullback in the runaway AI trade is that the classic safe retreat —developed-market government debt—is deep in the bargain basement.
    5. (sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
      • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC‎[1], archived from the original on 10 January 2023:
        The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
    6. (historical) A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
    7. (differential geometry) 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.
    8. (category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
      Synonyms: fiber product, fibre product, Cartesian square, pullback square
      Hyponyms: equalizer, equaliser
    9. (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.)
    10. A move in tap dance involving a backward jump landing on the balls of the feet.

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