extraction

Noun
Synonyms: origindescent

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  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”Synonyms: origindescent
  3. the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)“the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]

3.That which is extracted; extract; essence. [1913 Webster]

They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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