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View usage for: (ɪkstɪŋkʃən) 1. uncountable nounThe extinction of a species of animal or plant is the death of all its remaining living members. An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction. Many species have been shot to the verge of extinction. Synonyms: dying out, death, destruction, abolition More Synonyms of extinction 2. uncountable nounIf someone refers to the extinction of a way of life or type of activity, they mean that the way of life or activitystops existing. The loggers say their jobs are faced with extinction because of declining timbersales. extinction in British English (ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən) or extincture (ɪksˈtɪŋktʃə) noun1. the act of making extinct or the state of being extinct 2. the act of extinguishing or the state of being extinguished 3. complete destruction; annihilation 4. physics reduction of the intensity of radiation as a result of absorption or scattering by matter 5. astronomy the dimming of light from a celestial body as it passes through an absorbing or scattering medium, such as the earth's atmosphere or interstellar dust 6. psychology a process in which the frequency or intensity of a learned response is decreased as a result of reinforcement being withdrawn Compare habituation extinction in American English (ɛkˈstɪŋkʃən; ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən) noun1. a putting out or being put out, as of a fire 2. a destroying or being destroyed; annihilation; abolition 3. the fact or state of being or becoming extinct; dying out, as a species of animal 4. Physiology and Psychology the weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response that is no longer being reinforced Word origin ME extinccioun < L exstinctio < exstinctus: see extinct Examples of 'extinction' in a sentenceextinction In other languagesextinction British English: extinction NOUN The extinction of a species of animal or plant is the death of all its remaining living members. An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction. - American English: extinction
- Brazilian Portuguese: extinção
- Chinese: > 灭绝物种的
- European Spanish: extinción
- French: extinction
- German: Aussterben
- Italian: estinzione
- Japanese: 絶滅
- Korean: 멸종
- European Portuguese: extinção
- Latin American Spanish: extinción
Chinese translation of 'extinction' n (u) - [of species]
灭(滅)绝(絕) (mièjué) to face extinction 面(麵)临(臨)灭(滅)绝(絕) (miànlín mièjué)
Definition the end of a particular way of life or type of activity Many species have been hunted to the point of extinction. Synonyms dying out excision extirpation (formal) Additional synonymsDefinition the act of doing away with something the abolition of slavery Synonyms eradication, ending, end, withdrawal, destruction, removal, overturning, wiping out, overthrow, voiding, extinction, repeal, elimination, cancellation, suppression, quashing, termination, stamping out, subversion, extermination, annihilation, blotting out, repudiation, erasure, annulment, obliteration, revocation, effacement, nullification, abrogation, rescission, extirpation (formal), invalidation, vitiation, expunction Political leaders fear the annihilation of their people. Synonyms destruction, wiping out, abolition, extinction, extinguishing, liquidation, rooting out, extermination, eradication, erasure, obliteration, nullification, extirpation (formal) Definition ending or destruction the death of everything he had ever hoped for Synonyms destruction, ending, finish, ruin, wiping out, undoing, extinction, elimination, downfall, extermination, annihilation, obliteration, ruination |