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noun
A subspace such that there is a retraction onto it of the ambient space homotopic to the identity function on the ambient space.
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Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
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verb
To have a deformation retract as a subspace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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