extinction
/ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/ nom B1En français : extinction
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously.
- The fading of a conditioned response over time if it is not reinforced.
Pluriel extinctions
Dans la bibliothèque
A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man.
Your memoirs will draw to an end, Watson, upon the day that I crown my career by the capture or extinction of the most dangerous and capable criminal in Europe.”
The sudden extinction of the moccoletti, the darkness which had replaced the light, and the silence which had succeeded the turmoil, had left in Franz’s mind a certain depression which was not free from uneasiness.
Perhaps the most poignant casualty of this ongoing technological transition is the slow, inevitable extinction of the personalized signature.
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