Extraction

Extraction may refer to:

  • Extraction (album), an album by guitarist Greg Howe
  • Extraction (chemistry), the separation of a substance from a matrix
  • Extraction (military), the removal of someone from a hostile area to a secure location
  • Extraction (The Shield), an episode of the television series The Shield
  • Extraction (wine), the amount of polyphenols leeched from the grape into the must
  • Comedo extraction, a method of acne treatment
  • Data extraction, the process of retrieving data out of data sources
  • Dental extraction, the surgical removal of a tooth from the mouth
  • Fragrance extraction, the process of obtaining fragrant oils and compounds from odorous raw materials
  • Resource extraction, the process of locating, acquiring and selling any resource
    • Petroleum extraction, the process of recovering petroleum from the ground
  • Dead Space: Extraction, a video game for the Wii that serves as a prequel to the 2008 video game Dead Space
  • the process of reversing data compression, a.k.a. decompression, in computing
  • the process of choosing elements from a source document, in linguistics
  • a part of the anatomy of a stroke in rowing
  • the origin or ancestry of a person
  • "Extractions", a song by BS 2000 from the 2001 album Simply Mortified

Famous quotes containing the word extraction:

    Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
    Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970)