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Expunction
- noun - deletion by an act of expunging or erasing
Exsiccated
- verb - lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
Exsiccates
- verb - lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"
Exsiccator
- - An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.
Extinction
- noun - a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"
- no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano"
- no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"
- the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
Extracting
- verb - calculate the root of a number
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Extraction
- noun - properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force); "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
- the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
Extractive
- - Capable of being extracted.
Extractors
- noun - a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector
- an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components
Extricable
- adjective - capable of being extricated