Extinction (disambiguation)

Extinction, in biology and palaeontology, is the end of a species or other taxon.

Extinction may also refer to:

Science

• Mass extinction, or extinction event, a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
• Human extinction (end of the human species)
• Language extinction, or language death
• Extinction (another word for attenuation), in physical sciences
  • Extinction coefficient (another term for mass attenuation coefficient), in physical sciences
  • Extinction (astronomy)
  • Extinction (optical mineralogy), when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope
    • Bird's eye extinction, in optical mineralogy
    • Undulose extinction, a geological term
  • Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem in optics, when light changes media
• Extinction (psychology), when a conditioned response is reduced or lost
• Extinction (neurology), a neurological disorder that impairs the ability to perceive multiple stimuli of the same type simultaneously

Film and television

• "Extinction" (Star Trek: Enterprise), television episode
• "Extinction" (Smallville episode), television episode
• Resident Evil: Extinction, a 2007 film starring Milla Jovovich
• Transformers: Age of Extinction, a 2014 Transformers film
• Extinction (2015 film), a 2015 film starring Matthew Fox
• Extinction (2018 film), a 2018 science fiction thriller film

Literature

• Extinction (Forgotten Realms novel), a fantasy novel by Lisa Smedman
• Extinction (Bernhard novel), a 1986 novel by Thomas Bernhard
• Extinction, a science fiction novel by Ray Hammond

Video games

• "Extinction", a game mode in the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction, a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
• Extinction (video game), a 2018 action game by Iron Galaxy

Other uses

• Extinction (peerage), in the United Kingdom, happens when all possible heirs of a peer have died out
• "Extinction", a song by Stigmata from the album Hollow Dreams
• Extinction (album), a 1990 album by Nausea
• Extinction Rebellion, environmental campaign

See also

• Extinct (disambiguation)
• Extinction Event (disambiguation)