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extraction |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. ``A family of ancient extraction.'' --Clarendon. 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them --Milton. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}] 3: the act of extracting something [syn: {abstraction}]
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