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Extinction   /ɪkstˈɪŋkʃən/  /ɪkstˈɪŋʃən/   Listen
Extinction

noun
1.
No longer active; extinguished.
2.
No longer in existence.  Synonym: defunctness.
3.
The reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation.
4.
Complete annihilation.  Synonym: extermination.
5.
A conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus.  Synonym: experimental extinction.
6.
The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning.  Synonyms: extinguishing, quenching.



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... provinces. At first it seemed impossible that any common ground of agreement could be found. Cromwell was obsessed with the idea of a politico-religious union between the two republics, which would have meant the extinction of Dutch independence. The Council of State met the Dutch envoys with the proposal una gens, una respublica, which nothing but sheer conquest and dire necessity would ever induce the Dutch people to ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson
... them, whilst a dirty fellow assailed the ears of the passengers with the reiterated and loud address of, "Sir, will you walk in and be married," (as if the dread of any stoppage in the trade of conjugality was threatening mankind with premature extinction,) and the parson was seen walking before his shop, ready to couple you for a dram of gin or a roll ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... when length of years makes thee tired of earthly joys, and the curtain of death gently closes around thy last sleep of human existence, may the Angel of God attend thy bed, and take care that the expiring lamp of life shall not receive one rude blast to hasten on its extinction. ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens
... which they were either suddenly or gradually withdrawn from the Christian Church. Whatever era is chosen for that purpose, the death of the Apostles, the conversion of the Roman empire, or the extinction of the Arian heresy, the insensibility of the Christians who lived at that time will equally afford a just matter of surprise. They still supported their pretensions after they had lost their power. Credulity performed the office of faith; fanaticism was permitted ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant
... Joseph Chestermarke had gone away—probably for the night. And there had been something in the metallic clang of that closing door, something in the sure and certain fashion in which it had closed into its frame, something in the utter silence which had followed the sudden extinction of the light, which made the captive feel that he might beat upon door or wall as hard and as long as he pleased without attracting any attention. This place into which he had come of his own free will was no ordinary place—already he felt that he was in a trap out of ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher


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