Definition of Extraction

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Extraction

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.

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

That which is extracted; extract; essence.

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Extraction Quotations

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
Adam Clarke

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
Rudolf Carnap

Extraction Translations

extraction in German is Extrakt, herausziehen, Extrakt
extraction in Italian is estrazione del carbone
extraction in Norwegian is utvinning, avstamning, uttrekking

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