different between extractor vs extraction

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?st?ækt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st?ækt?/
• Rhymes: -ækt?(?)

Noun

extractor (plural extractors)

1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
   1. A machine for clearing combs of honey.
   2. A device for rendering wax.
2. (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
3. A centrifugal drying machine.
4. (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
5. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
6. A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French extracteur

Noun

extractor n (plural extractori)

1. extractor

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

extractor (feminine extractora, masculine plural extractores, feminine plural extractoras)

1. extracting

Noun

extractor m (plural extractores)

1. extractor fan

English

Etymology

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

1. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. A person's origin or ancestry.
   • 2014, Larissa Remennick, Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture, Routledge ?ISBN, page 144

     Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...

3. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
4. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Synonyms

• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement

Translations

Anagrams

• tetraxonic

French

Pronunciation

Noun

extraction f (plural extractions)

1. extraction

Further reading

• “extraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).