extraction Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
  2. noun properties attributable to your ancestry
    origin; descent.
    • he comes from good origins
  3. noun the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
    • the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction

WordNet

Ex*trac"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. extraction.
Definitions
  1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
  2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.
  3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
    They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton.

Webster 1913