extraction

English

 Extraction (military) on Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹækʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækʃən

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

   Coordinate term: abstraction

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. 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• agroextraction
• autoextraction
• buccal fat extraction
• coextraction
• collocation extraction
• comedo extraction
• cryoextraction
• dilation and extraction
• electroextraction
• extractional
• hot extraction
• hydroextraction
• immunoextraction
• intact dilation and extraction
• microextraction
• nonextraction
• overextraction
• perstraction
• phytoextraction
• postextraction
• preextraction
• reextraction
• root extraction
• solvent extraction
• Soxhlet extraction
• underextraction

Translations

act of extracting

Azerbaijani: hasilat (az) (of natural resources), çıxarılma (of natural resources) Bulgarian: вадене n (vadene), изваждане (bg) n (izvaždane) Catalan: extracció f Danish: udvinding c Dutch: extractie (nl) f Finnish: uuttaminen (fi) French: extraction (fr) f Galician: extraer (gl) German: Extraktion (de) f Hungarian: kihúzás (hu), kivonás (hu), kiszedés (hu), kiemelés (hu), kinyerés (hu), kitermelés (hu), eltávolítás (hu), kiszívás, elszívás (hu) Indonesian: ekstraksi (id) Malay: pengekstrakan Maori: kohikatanga Norwegian: Bokmål: utvinning m or f Nynorsk: utvinning f Ottoman Turkish: اخراج (ihrâc) Polish: wydobywanie (pl) n Romanian: extragere (ro) f Spanish: extracción (es) f

one's origin, lineage or ancestry

Bulgarian: произход (bg) m (proizhod) Catalan: extracció f Czech: původ (cs) m Danish: afstamning c, slægtskab n Dutch: afstamming (nl) f Finnish: syntyperä (fi), sukujuuri French: extraction (fr) German: Abstammung (de) f, Herkunft (de) f Hungarian: származás (hu), eredet (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: avstamning m or f Polish: pochodzenie (pl) n Serbo-Croatian: podrijetlo (sh) n Spanish: extracción (es) f Swedish: härkomst (sv) c, börd (sv) c, extraktion (sv) c, härstamning (sv) c

extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc — see extract

military

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removal of a tooth from its socket

Aramaic: ܥܩܪܐ Bulgarian: вадене n (vadene) Czech: trhání n Danish: udtrækning c Finnish: vetäminen (fi) French: (please verify) extraction (fr) Greek: εξαγωγή (el) f (exagogí) Hungarian: foghúzás (hu) Polish: usunięcie (pl) n Romanian: extracție (ro) f

Anagrams

• tetraxonic

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

extraction

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Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

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