Dictionary Entry
extinction
extinction is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
- 3noun
the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
"the extinction of the lights"
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- 4noun
a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- 5noun
complete annihilation
"they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"
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- 6noun
the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
- 7noun
no longer in existence
"the extinction of a species"
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- 8noun
no longer active; extinguished
"the extinction of the volcano"
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