A reduction in the price of a financial asset after a period of increases.
Investors were concerned about the recent pullback in the stock market.
A military withdrawal or retreat.
The general ordered a pullback of the troops to a safer position.
A mechanism or device that allows something to be pulled back or retracted.
The pullback on the toy car allows it to move forward when released.
A construction in mathematics, especially in category theory and differential geometry, that represents the inverse image of a mapping (also called a fiber product).
In differential geometry, the pullback of a form by a smooth map preserves exterior differentiation.
pullbackadjective
Relating to or functioning as a mechanism that is pulled back; used attributively.
The camera features a pullback lever for manual film advance.