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What is a pullback?

What is a pullback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
  4. (architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
  5. (finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
  6. (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.
  7. (category theory) The limit of a corner of arrows, which is a pair of arrows sharing the same codomain.
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