Dictionary Definition
extraction
Noun
1 the process of obtaining something from a
mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical
means
3 the act of pulling out (as a tooth); "the
dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun
- the act of extracting or the condition of being extracted, especially the extraction of a tooth from its socket
- an extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc
- one's origin, lineage or ancestry
- In the context of "military": the act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
Translations
the act of extracting or the condition of being
extracted, especially the extraction of a tooth from its socket
- Finnish: vetäminen
- French: extraction
extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant
etc
one's origin, lineage or ancestry
- Czech: původ
- Finnish: syntyperä, sukujuuri
- French: extraction
Extensive Definition
Extraction may refer to:
- Extraction (dental), surgical removal of a tooth from the mouth
- Extraction (fragrance), obtaining fragrant oils and compounds from odorous raw materials
- Extraction (military), removal of someone from a hostile area to a secure location
- Data extraction, retrieving data out of data sources
- Liquid-liquid extraction or solvent extraction, method to separate components of a mixture
- Resource extraction, locating, acquiring and selling any resource
- Leaching, separating a substance from a solid matrix into a liquid, in chemistry
- Reversing data compression, a.k.a. decompression, in computing
- Choosing elements from a source document, in linguistics
- Part of the anatomy of a stroke, in rowing
- "Extractions", song by BS 2000 from the 2001 album Simply Mortified
extraction in German: Extraktion
extraction in Esperanto: Ekstraktado
extraction in French: Extraction
extraction in Indonesian: Ekstraksi
extraction in Italian: Estrazione
extraction in Dutch: Extractie
extraction in Low German: Extrakschoon
extraction in Polish: Ekstrakcja
extraction in Slovak: Extrakcia
extraction in Chinese: 萃取
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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