ALL meanings of extinction
- noun extinction process of dying out 1
- noun extinction being dead, defunct 1
- noun extinction The state or process of a species, family, or larger group being or becoming extinct. 1
- uncountable noun extinction The extinction of a species of animal or plant is the death of all its remaining living members. 0
- uncountable noun extinction If someone refers to the extinction of a way of life or type of activity, they mean that the way of life or activity stops existing. 0
- noun extinction the act of making extinct or the state of being extinct 0
- noun extinction the act of extinguishing or the state of being extinguished 0
- noun extinction complete destruction; annihilation 0
- noun extinction The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation. 0
- noun extinction reduction of the intensity of radiation as a result of absorption or scattering by matter 0
- noun extinction (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer. 0
- noun extinction 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 0
- noun extinction a process in which the frequency or intensity of a learned response is decreased as a result of reinforcement being withdrawn 0
- noun extinction a putting out or being put out, as of a fire 0
- noun extinction a destroying or being destroyed; annihilation; abolition 0
- noun extinction the fact or state of being or becoming extinct; dying out, as a species of animal 0
- noun extinction the weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response that is no longer being reinforced 0