About The Word Extinction
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Extinction
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What's The Definition Of Extinction?
[n] the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"
[n] a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus [n] complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" [n] the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation [n] no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species" [n] no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano" Synonyms | Synonyms for Extinction: defunctness | experimental extinction | extermination | extinguishing | quenching Related Terms | Find terms related to Extinction: abolishment | abolition | abscission | amputation | annihilation | annulment | bane | biological death | blackout | blocking | burning out | burnout | cessation of life | choking | choking off | clinical death | controlling | crossing the bar | curtains | damping | death | death knell | debt of nature | decease | dematerialization | demise | departure | deracination | destruction | disappearance | disappearing | dispersion | dissipation | dissolution | dissolving | doom | dousing | dying | ebb of life | eclipse | elimination | end | end of life | ending | eradication | erasure | eternal rest | evanescence | evaporation | excision | exclusion | exit | expiration | extermination | extinguishment | extirpation | fadeaway | fadeout | fading | final summons | finger of death | fire fighting | flame-out | going | going off | going out | grave | hand of death | jaws of death | knell | last debt | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | leaving life | liquidation | loss of life | making an end | melting | mutilation | negation | nullification | occultation | parting | passing | passing away | passing over | perishing | purge | putting out | quenching | quietus | release | rescission | rest | reward | rooting out | sentence of death | shades of death | shadow of death | silencing | sleep | smotheration | smothering | snuffing | snuffing out | somatic death | stifling | strangulation | suffocation | summons of death | suppression | uprooting | vanishing | vanishing point | voiding | wipe See Also | absorption | action | activity | annihilation | conclusion | conditioning | death | disintegration | ending | inaction | inactiveness | inactivity | natural action | natural process | scattering | termination Extinction In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*tinc"tion\, n. [L. extinctio, exstinction: cf. F.
extinction.]
1. The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an
end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire,
life, activity, influence, etc.
2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be;
destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a
family, of a quarrel, of claim.
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