Thesaurus: extraction

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1. n. 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. n. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
3. n. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
4. n. the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
5. n. properties attributable to your ancestry
6. n. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
7. 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.
8. n:100 n. the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means n. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)