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What does extraction mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word extraction? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  2. A person's origin or ancestry.
  3. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
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Then he attended to another patient and when he returned I assented to the extraction whereupon he gave me a local anaesthetic.
Using a tamper, he levels and compresses the grinds, a technique absolutely necessary for uniform extraction.
Leaves from adults were macerated with liquid nitrogen and then 75 mg of the tissue was mixed with 375 ml of extraction buffer.
The results obtained by the 2 methods of specimen handling and DNA extraction were indistinguishable.
The company took a portable extraction plant down to the spit and excavated the ash from the lakebed for some months.
Spanish subtitles are included, so viewers of Latin extraction can feel demeaned in two languages.

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