Ex-trā'ction, n.
(eks-trāk'/shun), n. [Fr. extraction, Pr. extractio, Sp. extraccion, It. estrazione.]
Sense 1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from the earth, of a passage from a book, and the like.
Sense 2. The stock from which a person or family has descended; lineage; birth; descent. “A family of ancient extraction.” Clarendon.
Sense 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton.
The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a.) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b.) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.