Dictionary

extraction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
   • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
3. (countable, uncountable) A person's origin or ancestry.
   • Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ... 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (countable, uncountable) The removal of a tooth from its socket.
6. (countable, qualifier:coffee preparation; by ellipsis; coffee preparation; by ellipsis, uncountable) The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.

Forms

Coordinates

abstraction

Deriveds

collocation extraction · extraction shooter · extractional · immunoextraction · hydroextraction · nonextraction · Soxhlet extraction · cold extraction · coextraction · solvent extraction · preextraction · buccal fat extraction · cryoextraction · agroextraction · comedo extraction · underextraction · reextraction · perstraction · dilation and extraction · phytoextraction · postextraction · microextraction · electroextraction · intact dilation and extraction · overextraction · root extraction · hot extraction · autoextraction

Synonyms

descent (ancestry) · reduction · lineage (ancestry) · extract (something extracted)

Translations (66)

sv härkomst (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · es extracción (act of extracting) · hu kiemelés (act of extracting) · hu foghúzás (removal of a tooth from its socket) · arc ܥܩܪܐ (removal of a tooth from its socket) · ro extragere (act of extracting) · da afstamning (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · fr extraction (act of extracting) · bg произход (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · ms pengekstrakan (act of extracting) · hu kimenekítés (military) · hu kiszívás (act of extracting) · hu származás (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · fr extraction (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · hu kitermelés (act of extracting) · da udtrækning (removal of a tooth from its socket) · de Extraktion (act of extracting) · nb avstamning (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · ga eastóscadh (act of extracting) · hu eredet (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · fi vetäminen (removal of a tooth from its socket) · mi kohikatanga (act of extracting) · bg вадене (removal of a tooth from its socket) · de Herkunft (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · ca extracció (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · fi evakuointi (military) · pl wycofanie (military) · az çıxarılma (act of extracting) · gl extraer (act of extracting) · hu eltávolítás (act of extracting) · pl wydobywanie (act of extracting) · de Abstammung (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · el εξαγωγή (removal of a tooth from its socket) · bg вадене (act of extracting) · hu kinyerés (act of extracting) · da udvinding (act of extracting) · hu kihúzás (act of extracting) · cs původ (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · pl usunięcie (removal of a tooth from its socket) · fi syntyperä (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · nl extractie (act of extracting) · fi uuttaminen (act of extracting) · ro extracție (removal of a tooth from its socket) · hu kiszedés (act of extracting) · hu elszívás (act of extracting) · nl afstamming (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · cs trhání (removal of a tooth from its socket) · nn utvinning (act of extracting) · da slægtskab (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · ota اخراج (act of extracting) · sv härstamning (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · nl aftreksel (military) · id ekstraksi (act of extracting) · es extracción (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · bg изваждане (act of extracting) · sh podrijetlo (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · hi निकालना (act of extracting) · pl pochodzenie (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · fi sukujuuri (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · hu kivonás (act of extracting) · sv extraktion (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · ca extracció (act of extracting) · nb utvinning (act of extracting) · sv börd (one's origin, lineage or ancestry) · az hasilat (act of extracting) · hu kihozatal (military)

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