extraction

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extraction /ɪk ˈstræk ʃən/ ?

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(n) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
(n) properties attributable to your ancestry
(n) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

Menstrual extraction requires little or no dilation in most cases.
The iron ore extraction facility operated by Brazilian firm Companhia Vale Rio Doce is one of the most efficient and spectacular mining complexes in the world.
Vieux, who was born in Paris of Haitian extraction, is a consummate matchmaker who never stops schmoozing.

Obama says that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that "we have to acknowledge that there are inherent risks to drilling four miles beneath the surface of the Earth - risks that are bound to increase the harder oil extraction becomes."
on Jun 2, 2010 By: Barack Obama Source: The Hill (blog)
"For 40 years a couple of oil companies worked on the tar sands extraction process, not its environmental impacts. It was Alberta's massive expansion of tar sands leasing over the last few years, ignoring serious unanswered environmental and public...
on Aug 23, 2008 By: Gary Stewart Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Home equity extraction will ease and with it some of the strength in personal consumption expenditures," Greenspan said in the text of a speech at the close of a two-day Kansas City Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
on Aug 31, 2005 By: Alan Greenspan Source: Bloomberg