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extinction
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 extinction
No longer active; extinguished.
Roget 162:
destruction;
waste,
dissolution,
breaking up;
diruption†,
disruption;
consumption;
disorganization.
fall,
downfall,
devastation,
ruin,
perdition,
crash;
eboulement [Fr.],
smash,
havoc,
delabrement [Fr.],
debacle;
break down,
break up,
fall apart;
prostration;
desolation,
bouleversement [Fr.],
wreck,
wrack,
shipwreck,
cataclysm;
washout.
extinction,
annihilation;
destruction of life
etc.
361;
knock-down blow;
doom,
crack of doom.
destroying
etc.
v.;
demolition,
demolishment;
overthrow,
subversion,
suppression;
abolition
etc.
(abrogation)
756;
biblioclasm†;
sacrifice;
ravage,
razzia†;
inactivation;
incendiarism;
revolution
etc.
146;
extirpation
etc.
(extraction)
301;
beginning of the end,
commencement de la fin [Fr.],
road to ruin;
dilapidation
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
sabotage.
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Roget 421:
darkness
etc.
adj.,
absence of light;
blackness
etc.
(dark color)
431;
obscurity,
gloom,
murk;
dusk
etc.
(dimness)
422.
Cimmerian darkness†,
Stygian darkness,
Egyptian darkness;
night;
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
blind man's holiday;
darkness visible,
darkness that can be felt;
palpable obscure;
Erebus [Lat.];
the jaws of darkness"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
sablevested night"
[Milton].
shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra;
sciagraphy†.
obscuration;
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration†;
obtenebration†,
offuscation†,
caligation†;
extinction;
eclipse,
total eclipse;
gathering of the clouds.
shading;
distribution of shade;
chiaroscuro
etc.
(light)
420.
noctivagation†.
[perfectly black objects]
black body;
hohlraum [Phys.];
black hole;
dark star;
dark matter,
cold dark matter.
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Roget 2:
inexistence†;
nonexistence,
nonsubsistence;
nonentity,
nil;
negativeness
etc.
adj.;
nullity;
nihility†,
nihilism;
tabula rasa [Lat.],
blank;
abeyance;
absence
etc.
187;
no such thing
etc.
4;
nonbeing,
nothingness,
oblivion.
annihilation;
extinction
etc.
(destruction)
162;
extinguishment,
extirpation,
Nirvana,
obliteration.
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Roget 552:
obliteration;
erasure,
rasure†;
cancel,
cancellation;
circumduction†;
deletion,
blot;
tabula rasa [Lat.];
effacement,
extinction.
2 extinction
No longer in existence:
— The extinction of a species.
synoniem: defunctness.
Pools: wymarcie
3 extinction
The reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation.
Nederlands: extinctie
Pools: ekstynkcja
4 extinction
Complete annihilation:
— They think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs.
synoniem: extermination.
Roget 67:
end,
close,
termination;
desinence†,
conclusion,
finis,
finale,
period,
term,
terminus,
endpoint,
last,
omega;
extreme,
extremity;
gable end,
butt end,
fag-end;
tip,
nib,
point;
tail
etc.
(rear)
235;
verge
etc.
(edge)
231;
tag,
peroration;
bonne bouche [Fr.];
bottom dollar,
tail end,
rear guard.
consummation,
denouement;
finish
etc.
(completion)
729;
fate;
doom,
doomsday;
crack of doom,
day of Judgment,
dies irae,
fall of the curtain;
goal,
destination;
limit,
determination;
expiration,
expiry†,
extinction,
extermination;
death
etc.
360;
end of all things;
finality;
eschatology.
break up,
commencement de la fin,
last stage,
turning point;
coup de grace,
deathblow;
knock-out-blow;
sockdolager [U.S.].
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5 extinction
A conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus.
synoniem: experimental extinction.
6 extinction
The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning:
— The extinction of the lights.
synoniemen: extinguishing, quenching.
Nederlands: schrikken, harden
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