extraction
The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
Other meanings
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Related words
- buccal fat extraction
- comedo extraction
- agroextraction
- autoextraction
- coextraction
- cryoextraction
- electroextraction
- extractional
- extraction shooter
- hydroextraction
- immunoextraction
- microextraction
Word history
From Medieval Latin "extractio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “extraction” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.