extinction

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
2. (countable, uncountable) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
3. (countable, uncountable) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
4. (countable, uncountable) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.

Conceptes

extinció

extermini

exterminació

desintegració

anihilació

anihilament

aniquilació

Extinció

Sinònims

destruction

annihilation

quenching

death

💀

extermination

end

🔚

obliteration

extinguishing

extinguishment

eradication

abolition

disappearance

cessation

extinguish

defunctness

dying

dying out

experimental extinction

allaying

nirvana

nonexistence

putting out

remaining

removal

sterilization

sterilize

subsidence

termination

absorbancy

erasement

flame-out

bumwhush

absorbance

attenuation

cancellation

consumption

deletion

demise

die out

discontinuance

discontinuation

dissolution

effacement

elimination

erase

erasure

expiation

interruption

lapse

massacre

Traduccions

extinction

estinzione

extinção

extinción

Aussterben

vernietiging

söndürme

Extinktion

Vernichtung

imha

estinguere

sterminio

spegnimento

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: -

In summary

From late Middle English, borrowed from Latin extinctio (“extinction, annihilation”), from extinguere, past participle extinctus (“to extinguish”); see extinguish.