Extraction










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Extraction \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.
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2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent;
birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family
of ancient extraction." --Clarendon.
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3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
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They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest
efficacy and extraction of that living intellect
that bred them. --Milton.
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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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extraction
n 1: the process of obtaining something from a mixture or
compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good
origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction]

3: the action of taking out something (especially using effort
or force); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to
the extraction"
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extraction [ikstrækʃən]
Extrakt; herausziehen

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extraction

eltávolítás
eredet
extrahálás
extrakció
kihúzás
kinyerés
kitépés
kivonat
kivonás
párlat
származás


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extraction

Anzapfung f
extraction

Extrakt m; Extraktion f; Entziehung f; Entzug m
extraction

Gewinnung f
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163 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, tug-of-war,
tugging, uprooting, winnowing, withdrawal, workmanship



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