extraction

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
noun properties attributable to your ancestry
noun the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

They are of Dutch extraction. — Denmark, M. Pearson Thomson
This personage was of Devonshire extraction. — Paul Clifford — Complete, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
=descendencia=, f., descent, extraction; offspring, family. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson

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