Noun: extraction ik'strak-shun or ek'strak-shun
- The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
"The extraction of essential oils from plants often involves steam distillation"
- The action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
"the dentist gave her a local anaesthetic prior to the extraction"
- Properties attributable to your ancestry
"Her noble extraction was evident in her bearing";
- origin, descent
Derived forms: extractions
Type of: action, activity, ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage, natural action, natural process, remotion [archaic], removal
Encyclopedia: Extraction, transformation and loading