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extinct
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extinct
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Extinct
(gcide) | Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, a. [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of
extinguere, exstinguere. See Extinguish.]
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a
lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
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Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct.
--Milton.
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2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family
becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
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3. Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no
living members; -- used of species of living organisms,
especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now
extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.
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Extinct
(gcide) | Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, v. t.
To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] --Shak.
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extinct
(wn) | extinct
adj 1: no longer in existence; lost or especially having died
out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct
species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct
laws and customs" [syn: extinct, nonextant] [ant:
extant]
2: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
[ant: active]
3: being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette
into the stream"; "the fire is out" [syn: extinct,
out(p)] |
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experimental extinction
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extinction
(encz) | extinction,vyhynutí n: Zdeněk Brožextinction,vymizení n: Zdeněk Brož |
extinction angle
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Extinct
(gcide) | Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, a. [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of
extinguere, exstinguere. See Extinguish.]
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a
lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
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Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct.
--Milton.
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2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family
becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
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3. Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no
living members; -- used of species of living organisms,
especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now
extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.
[PJC]Extinct \Ex*tinct"\, v. t.
To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Extinction
(gcide) | Extinction \Ex*tinc"tion\, n. [L. extinctio, exstinction: cf. F.
extinction.]
1. 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.
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2. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be;
destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a
family, of a quarrel, of claim.
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3. Specifically: The ceasing to exist of a species of living
organism, such as a plant or animal, whose numbers
declined to the point where the last member of the species
died and therefore no new members of the species could
ever again be born.
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Note: Extinctions have occurred many times throughout the
history of life on Earth, and abundant evidence of the
prior existence of animals and plants are found as
fossils in rock formations many millions of years old.
It is believed by some that due to the influence of man
on the environment and destruction of habitat, the rate
of extinction of species is now higher than at any
previous time on this planet. Extinctions of some
animals in recent years have actually been reliably
recorded, such as that of the dodo bird. A remarkable
example of extinction is that of the passenger pigeon
(Ectopistes migratorius) in North America, which once
numbered in the billions, and the last living member of
which species was recorded as dying in captivity in
1914.
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Inextinct
(gcide) | Inextinct \In`ex*tinct"\, a. [L. inextinctus, inexstinctus. See
Extinct.]
Not quenched; not extinct.
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The Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order
(gcide) | Cetacea \Ce*ta"ce*a\, n. pl. [NL., from L. cetus whale, Gr. ?.]
(Zool.)
An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like
ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring
forth living young which they suckle for some time. The
anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are
horizontal. There are two living suborders:
(a) The {Mysticete or whalebone whales, having no true
teeth after birth, but with a series of plates of
whalebone [see Baleen.] hanging down from the upper jaw
on each side, thus making a strainer, through which they
receive the small animals upon which they feed.}
(b) The {Denticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale,
which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is
extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the
Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.}
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Unextinct
(gcide) | Unextinct \Unextinct\
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angle of extinction
(wn) | angle of extinction
n 1: the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated
before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized
light [syn: angle of extinction, extinction angle] |
experimental extinction
(wn) | experimental extinction
n 1: a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed
and a conditioned response becomes independent of the
conditioned stimulus [syn: extinction, {experimental
extinction}] |
extinction
(wn) | extinction
n 1: no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the
volcano"
2: no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species" [syn:
extinction, defunctness]
3: the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence
of absorption and radiation
4: complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the
extinction of the dinosaurs" [syn: extinction,
extermination]
5: a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and
a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned
stimulus [syn: extinction, experimental extinction]
6: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the
extinction of the lights" [syn: extinction,
extinguishing, quenching] |
extinction angle
(wn) | extinction angle
n 1: the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated
before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized
light [syn: angle of extinction, extinction angle] |
extinction
(devil) | EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the
future state.
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EXTINCTION OF A THIN
(bouvier) | EXTINCTION OF A THING. When a thing which is the subject of a contract has
been destroyed, the contract is of course rescinded as, for example, if Paul
sell his horse Napoleon to Peter, and promises to deliver him to the buyer
in ten days, and in the mean time the horse dies, the contract is rescinded,
as it is impossible to deliver a thing which is not in esse; but if Paul
engage to deliver a horse to Peter in ten days, and, for the purpose of
fulfilling his contract, he buys a horse and it die, this is no cause for
rescinding the contract, because he can buy another and complete it
afterwards. When the subject of the contract is an individual, and not
generally one of a species, the contract may be rescinded; when it is one of
a species which has been destroyed, then, it may still be completed, and it
will be enforced. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 1009.
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