Extraction

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  • noun. The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • noun. Something obtained by extracting; an extract.
  • noun. Origin; lineage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The production of segregated descendants by Mendelian hybrids.
  • noun. The act of extracting.
  • noun. The operation of drawing anything from a substance, as an essence, tincture, or the like.
  • noun. The act of taking out or copying a part, as a passage from a book.
  • noun. In arithmetic and algebra, the rule or operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. See root.
  • noun. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
  • noun. Descent; lineage; birth; derivation of persons from a stock or family.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of extracting, or drawing out.
  • noun. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
  • noun. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
  • noun. The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • noun. A person's origin or ancestry.
  • noun. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • noun. An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • noun. A removal of a tooth from its socket.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
  • noun. the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
  • noun. properties attributable to your ancestry
  • Word Usage
    "Eastern Quebec, being largely Norman in extraction, is also the home of ballads; while we fail to detect more than a small number in the Montreal districts, where the settlers were more predominantly from the Loire River to the south."
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