EXTRACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extraction mean? 

• EXTRACTION (noun)
  The noun EXTRACTION has 3 senses:

1. the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

2. properties attributable to your ancestry

3. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

  Familiarity information: EXTRACTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraction"):

decoction ((pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling)

dehydration; desiccation; drying up; evaporation (the process of extracting moisture)

elution (the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions)

infusion (the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water))

beneficiation; mineral dressing; mineral extraction; mineral processing; ore dressing; ore processing (crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques)

Derivation:

extract (extract by the process of distillation)

extract (separate (a metal) from an ore)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Properties attributable to your ancestry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

descent; extraction; origin

Context example:

he comes from good origins

Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraction"):

full blood (descent from parents both of one pure breed)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction

Hypernyms ("extraction" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Derivation:

extract (remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense)

 Context examples 

This subtraction technique allows extraction of a high-intensity signal from the superimposed background information.

(Digital Subtraction Angiography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The main tissue block remains unchanged and is not chemically treated or thawed, which allows for extraction and analysis of high quality DNA, RNA, or protein.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

A cone (usually containing antibiotics) is normally placed below the gingiva after a dental extraction.

(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A DNA specimen extraction from a saliva specimen.

(Biospecimen, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

All commercial resource extraction activities, including commercial fishing and any future mineral extraction, are prohibited in the expansion area, as they are within the boundaries of the existing monument.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

It was discovered in Scotland 50 years ago, but it wasn’t until more recently — using modern fossil extraction methods — that the bones could be pulled out of hard rock.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

Mr. Melas is a Greek by extraction, as I understand, and he is a remarkable linguist.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) composed of a heterogeneous mixture of sulfated polysaccharide glycosaminoglycan chains obtained by depolymerisation of porcine mucosal sodium heparin, extraction/purification and conversion to the calcium salt.

(Nadroparin Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)

His sister Marian had been keeping company with an industrious young mechanic, of German extraction, who, after thoroughly learning the trade, had set up for himself in a bicycle-repair shop.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mary, however, continued to console herself with such kind of moral extractions from the evil before them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)