Extinction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTINCTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of making extinct
• the state or process of being or becoming extinct
• the wiping out of a debt
• reduction to zero in the intensity of light or other radiation as it passes through a medium, due to absorption, reflection, or scattering
• The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.
• State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
• no longer active; extinguished
• no longer in existence
• the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
• complete annihilation
• a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of making extinct or causing to be extinguished

Words related to EXTINCTION

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Words that contain EXTINCTION

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How to use EXTINCTION in a sentence

• Sir Laurence Parsons wished to see a plan for the gradual extinction of the trade.
• He secured the triumph of Realism for a time and the apparent extinction of heresy.
• Commissariat cut off, extinction imminent! Now you go and bring in the provisions.
• But for a Runnymede thus to decline would be worse than extinction.
• I was sitting upstairs, simply bored to extinction.
• The extinction of the public debt having taken place, there is no longer any use for the offices of Commissioners of Loans and of the Sinking Fund.
• We believe this war is to prepare the way for the extinction of Slavery by the action of economical causes, and we should prefer that solution to one of fire and blood.
• In this there is a correspondence to the duration, the emergence, the extinction, of impressions on photographic preparations.
• It has been observed that in the course of earthly greatness a day of culminating triumph is often paid for by a morrow of sudden extinction.
• Before so great a force the Welsh could do but little, and the spring saw the extinction of the rebellion.
• He was arrested at Montevarchi and confined in the fortress of Florence, where he made such revelations as rendered the extinction of the Sienese revolt an easy matter.
• I wish the material prosperity of the already free, which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
• Instead of anticipating its extinction along with the ceremonial law, He speaks of its existence after the downfal of Jerusalem.
• Then follows an interesting inquiry into the reasons for the extinction of human races.
• Further difficulties now arose which led finally to the extinction of the company.
• Having thus explained the rise, progress, and extinction of the rebellion, it will be necessary to take a retrospective view of the proceedings in parliament.
• Thrown into confusion by the extinction of the lights they were now being attacked by the red police.
• Thus extinction and natural selection will, as we have seen, go hand in hand.
• On the theory of natural selection the extinction of old forms and the production of new and improved forms are intimately connected together.
• A broken or interrupted range may often be accounted for by the extinction of the species in the intermediate regions.
• Whether it be doomed to a sudden extinction, or to a gradual abolition through economical causes, this war will not leave it where it was before.
• It was screened from extinction in the draught by a standing photograph-frame.
• Its future still hangs in the insecure balance between construction and destruction, between life and extinction.
• A thousand years from the infliction of a mortal wound to the moment of extinction is a long agony.
• Many of the evils which fell on that sinner, fell also on his children and rested on them till the extinction of his race by the deluge.
• Pennsylvania and Carolina were settled during its dark quarter, in the interval between the extinction of the first and the formation of the second board.
• The second mate, who was a real John Bull, believed in work rather than prayer, at least so long as their position threatened sudden extinction.

Similar words containing TINC without suffix tion and without prefix ex

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