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extinction
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extinction
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[PJC]
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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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n 1: no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the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
(devil) | EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the
future state.
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experimental extinction
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extinction angle
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[PJC]
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.
[PJC] |
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 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 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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