Usually means: Permanent end of species' existence.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word Extinction:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinction: Merriam-Webster
  2. extinction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extinction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extinction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extinction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extinction, extinction: Wordnik
  7. extinction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extinction: Wiktionary
  9. extinction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extinction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extinction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extinction: Dictionary.com
  13. extinction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Extinction(s), Extinction (Bernhard novel), Extinction (Forgotten Realms novel), Extinction (album), Extinction (astronomy), Extinction (biology), Extinction (disambiguation), Extinction (film), Extinction (neurology), Extinction (optical mineralogy), Extinction (peerage), Extinction (physics), Extinction (psychology), Extinction (video game), Extinction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Extinction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. extinction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. extinction: Rhymezone
  18. Extinction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. extinction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. extinction: FreeDictionary.org
  21. extinction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. extinction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. extinction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extinction (biology), Extinction (geology), extinction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extinction (astronomy), Extinction (biology), Extinction (geology), extinction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. Extinction (biology), Extinction (geology), extinction: Medical dictionary

Science (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extinction: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. Extinction: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. extinction: Evolution Glossary
  6. extinction: Evolution Glossary
  7. extinction: Anthropological Terms
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  9. extinction: Natural History Terms
  10. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  11. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Extinction: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extinction)

noun:  The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
noun:  (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
noun:  (pathology) The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
noun:  (psychology) The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.

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