extraction

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ækʃən

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
   • 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:

     They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

3. (dated) A person's origin or ancestry.
   • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:

     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. ...

4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

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extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

• “extraction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.