extraction

1. 1.

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

   Broadernatural process

   Narrowerdecoctiondehydrationelutioninfusionmineral extraction
2. 2.

   properties attributable to your ancestry

   “he comes from good origins”

   Synonymsorigindescent

   Broaderancestry

   Narrowerfull blood
3. 3.

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

   “the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction”

   Broaderremoval

Other forms of extraction

plural

extractions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about extraction

What does extraction mean?

extraction means "the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in extraction?

extraction has 3 syllables: ex-trac-tion. The stress falls on "trac". In IPA it is /ɛkˈstɹækʃən/.

What is another word for extraction?

Close synonyms include origin, descent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extraction a common word?

extraction is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with extraction?

2 words rhyme with extraction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.