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Extraction

Extraction Meaning & Definition
Extraction Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Extraction?

[n] the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
[n] properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
[n] the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

Synonyms | Synonyms for Extraction: descent | origin

Related Terms | Find terms related to Extraction: affiliation | ancestry | apparentation | architecture | assembly | attraction | attrition | birth | blood | bloodline | bolting | branch | breed | building | casting | clarification | colature | common ancestry | composition | concentrate | concentration | consanguinity | construction | conversion | crafting | craftsmanship | creation | cultivation | curtailment | cut | cutting | decoction | decrease | decrement | depletion | depreciation | deracination | derivation | derogation | descent | destructive distillation | detraction | devising | diminution | dip | direct line | disparagement | distaff side | distillate | distillation | draft | drawing | drayage | edulcoration | elaboration | elixir | elution | elutriation | eradication | erection | essence | essentialization | excerpt | excerption | extirpation | extract | extrication | fabrication | family | fashioning | female line | filiation | filtering | filtration | formation | forming | formulation | framing | growing | handicraft | handiwork | harvesting | haulage | hauling | heaving | house | impairment | infusion | leaching | lessening | line | line of descent | lineage | lixiviation | machining | making | male line | manufacture | manufacturing | milling | mining | molding | origin | parentage | passage | pedigree | percolation | phylum | prefabrication | preparation | processing | producing | pull | pulling | pulling power | purification | quintessence | race | raising | reduction | refinement | refining | remission | removal | retraction | retrenchment | riddling | screening | seed | selected passage | selection | separation | sept | shaping | shortening | shrinkage | side | sieving | sifting | smelting | spear side | spindle side | spirit | spiritualization | stem | stirps | stock | strain | straining | sublimation | succession | sword side | towage | towing | traction | tractive power | truncation | tugging | tug-of-war | uprooting | winnowing | withdrawal | workmanship

See Also | action | activity | ancestry | beneficiation | dehydration | derivation | desiccation | drying up | elution | evaporation | filiation | full blood | lineage | mineral dressing | mineral extraction | mineral processing | natural action | natural process | ore dressing | ore processing | remotion | removal

Extraction In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*trac"tion\, n. [Cf. F. extraction.] 1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. ``A family of ancient extraction.'' --Clarendon. 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. --Milton. {The extraction of roots}. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

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