extraction

/ɪkˈstræk·ʃən/ n [C/U]

Definition

› the process of removing or taking out something: [C] a tooth extraction › If you say that a person is of a particular extraction, you mean that the person originally came from the stated nation or country: [U] She is of Korean extraction.

(Definition of extraction n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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