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. [1913 Webster]
Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
That which is extracted; extract; essence. [1913 Webster]
"They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them." [1913 Webster]

The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

extraction, n.
1 the act or an instance of extracting; the process of being extracted.
2 the removal of a tooth.
3 origin, lineage, descent (of Indian extraction).

Etymology

ME f. F f. LL extractio -onis (as EXTRACT)

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THESAURUS

extraction

affiliation, ancestry, apparentation, architecture, assembly, attraction, attrition, birth, blood, bloodline, bolting, branch, breed, building, casting, clarification, colature, common ancestry, composition, concentrate, concentration, consanguinity, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, curtailment, cut, cutting, decoction, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, deracination, derivation, derogation, descent, destructive distillation, detraction, devising, diminution, dip, direct line, disparagement, distaff side, distillate, distillation, draft, drawing, drayage, edulcoration, elaboration, elixir, elution, elutriation, eradication, erection, essence, essentialization, excerpt, excerption, extirpation, extract, extrication, fabrication, family, fashioning, female line, filiation, filtering, filtration, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, haulage, hauling, heaving, house, impairment, infusion, leaching, lessening, line, line of descent, lineage, lixiviation, machining, making, male line, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, origin, parentage, passage, pedigree, percolation, phylum, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pull, pulling, pulling power, purification, quintessence, race, raising, reduction, refinement, refining, remission, removal, retraction, retrenchment, riddling, screening, seed, selected passage, selection, separation, sept, shaping, shortening, shrinkage, side, sieving, sifting, smelting, spear side, spindle side, spirit, spiritualization, stem, stirps, stock, strain, straining, sublimation, succession, sword side, towage, towing, traction, tractive power, truncation, tug-of-war, tugging, uprooting, winnowing, withdrawal, workmanship

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ROGET THESAURUS

extraction

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.

Extraction

N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.

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