extraction
noun/ɪkˈstrækʃn/
/ɪkˈstrækʃn/
- [uncountable, countable] the act or process of removing or obtaining something from something else
- oil/mineral/coal, etc. extraction
- the extraction of salt from the sea
- Commercial peat extraction is destroying many threatened habitats.
- Methods of extraction vary from mine to mine.
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- [uncountable] of… extraction (formal) having a particular family origin
- an American of Hungarian extraction
- a young American lawyer of Irish extraction
- [countable] (specialist) the process of removing a tooth
- I didn’t like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse.
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin extractio(n-), from Latin extrahere ‘draw out’, from ex- ‘out’ + trahere ‘draw’.
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