English to English

noun (n)

• the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means(noun.process)

  source: wordnet30
• properties attributable to your ancestry(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  descent, origin
  

  source: wordnet30
• the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)(noun.act)

  Example:
  The dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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 earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.(noun)

  source: webster1913