Weak retract

Definition
A subspace of a topological space is said to be a weak retract if there is a weak retraction from the whole space to the subspace. A weak retraction here is a continuous map from a space to itself such that the restriction of the map to its image, is a homeomorphism from the image to itself (for a retraction, we require the homeomorphism to be the identity map).

Stronger properties

 * Retract

Weaker properties

 * Homologically injective subspace
 * Homotopically injective subspace