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extraction

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English

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 extraction (military) on Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

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Noun

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extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

  1. The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
    Coordinate term: abstraction
  2. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  3. A person's origin or ancestry.
    • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
      Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
  4. (military) The act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  5. (dentistry) The removal of a tooth from its socket.
  6. (coffee preparation, by ellipsis) The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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extraction f (plural extractions)

  1. extraction

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