pullback

The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.

Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.

Archaic Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.

Business, Finance A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.

Historical A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.

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.

Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.

Category theory, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.