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The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.

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The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.

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The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously

Extinction may come about indirectly and even more surely.

On the extinction of the male line of the house of Habsburg in Spain he was named heir by the will of Charles II.

This ratification of the oligarchical principle, together with the establishment in 1311 of the Council of Ten, completed that famous constitution which endured till the extinction of the republic in 1797.

On the extinction (1218) of that dynasty both castle and town passed to the counts of Kyburg, and from them, with the rest of their possessions, in 1272 by marriage to the cadet line of the Habsburgs.

Though now on the way to extinction, Cycadeae are still widely represented in the southern hemisphere by genera which, however, have no counterpart in the Mesozoic era.

On their extinction it passed to the Saxon house, and in 1007 the emperor Henry II.

Whereas Plato's main problem had been the organization of the perfect state, and Aristotle's intellect had ranged with fresh interest over all departments of the knowable, political speculation had become a mockery with the extinction of free political life, and knowledge as such had lost its freshness for the Greeks of the Roman Empire.

But in the 13th century it began to fail, and in 1591 the drying up of the Papireto caused the extinction of the plant in that district.

It received town rights from Frederick Barbarossa, and after the extinction of the Hohenstaufen became a free imperial town.

The Deer Removal Act (1851) resulted in the almost total extinction of the forest deer.

On the extinction of this family in 1248, most of their fiefs were given by the two bishops to the father-in-law of the last lord of Andechs, Albert, count of Tirol.

One of the oldest of Venezuelan industries, the Margarita pearl fisheries, was prohibited in 1909 for an indefinite time because of the threatened extinction of the oyster beds.

To this consummation, with its necessary accompaniment in the extinction of prophecy, the book of Haggai already points.

Most of the rajas remained loyal; and the capture of the town of Kotah, which had been held by the mutineers of that state, in March 1858, marked the extinction of armed rebellion.

Pisa and Perugia were threatened with extinction, and Florence dreaded the advance of the Visconti arms, when the plague suddenly cut short his career of treachery and conquest in the year 1402.

The present structure was erected subsequent to the extinction of the Jacobite rebellion.

There is a well-known story of the last of the race being killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680, but there is evidence of wolves having survived in Sutherlandshire and other parts into the following century (perhaps as late as 1743), though the date of their final extinction cannot be accurately fixed.

This book, which comes down to the year 1526 and the extinction of Czech independence,'was founded on laborious research in the local archives of Bohemia and in the libraries of the chief cities of Europe, and remains the standard authority.

His work won him the Rumford medal of the Royal Society in 1838, and in 1843 he received its Royal medal for a paper on the "Transparency of the Atmosphere and the Laws of Extinction of the Sun's Rays passing through it."

He opposed the removal of Jewish disabilities, arguing, we are told by a contemporary, " on the part of the Evangelicals," and pleaded for the gradual extinction, in preference to the immediate abolition, of slavery.

Joint deliberation would ensure a majority to the reformers and therefore the abolition of privileges and the extinction of feudal rights of property.

The Liberal Unionists, whose extinction had once been so confidently foretold, had increased from 46 to 71, and the Parnellites, in spite of the most violent clerical opposition, from 9 to 12.

All species of sea turtles are threatened by extinction.

It passed in 1559 to Duke John the Younger, founder of the line of Holstein-Sonderburg, on the extinction of which, in 1761, it fell to Denmark, and in 1867, with Schleswig-Holstein, to Prussia.

Provision was moreover made by an ordinance of 1906 for the extinction of slavery itself throughout the protectorate, it being enacted that 1 Extract from a despatch of Lord Salisbury to the British ambassador to France, dated 30th of March 1892.

On the extinction of the direct line of the Capets the crown passed to a younger branch, that of the Valois.

The present constitution of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (see Austria) is based on the Pragmatic Sanction of the emperor Charles VI., first promulgated on the 19th of April 1713, whereby the succession to the throne is settled in the dynasty of Habsburg-Lorraine, descending by right of primogeniture and lineal succession to male heirs, and, in case of their extinction, to the female line, and whereby the indissolubility and indivisibility of the monarchy are determined; is based, further, on the diploma of the emperor Francis Joseph I.

The nation wished for the establishmentof internal unity through religious tolerance and the extinction of private organizations; it looked for the extension of Frances external power through the abasement of the house of Spain, protection of the Protestants in the Netherlands and Germany, and independence of Rome.

The power of the Internet and associated technologies we have so far described, combined with our new understanding of the genome, dooms disease to eventual extinction.

Is n't its meaning the lilac petals on water, camomile 's sensuous sinking lip on lip, into starry extinction !

The campaign for extinction is being lead by Tory shadow cabinet member, Bernard Jenkin.

Customers do n't want to buy products linked to rainforest destruction or species extinction.

Much of the world 's wildlife is threatened with extinction, including one quarter of the mammal species.

This approach typified much of the literature on dinosaurian extinction from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Conservation successes document that we should not be passive by-standers in the unfolding tragedy of biodiversity loss and species extinction.

Against all odds, Manx Gaelic has clawed itself back from the verge of extinction over the past thirty years.

Many species are counted to be precariously on the edge of extinction.

Whenever forests are destroyed, the new space decreases biodiversity and increases the greenhouse effect, not to mention how it displaces animals and people, leading to the extinction of some animal and plant species.

Old breeds struggling to evade extinction and new breeds in development both find themselves classed as Rare Dog Breeds when they are approved for registry with the AKC's Foundation Stock Service.

Opening up to foreign trade brought quite a boon to Japan, but it also brought something else; a depletion of natural pearls and near extinction of the nation's clam beds.

The South bombs the Heimdal and lets loose ARK, an ancient organism bred for the extinction of humanity.

You are a sarcastic, trigger-happy gray alien named Crypto whose race faces extinction due to genetic deterioration.

Everyone in the Empire was confused because their existence was now on a deadly threshold of extinction.

Extinction is a type of discipline that seeks to prevent inadvertent positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

Withholding privileges is another form of extinction that is more appropriate for older children and adolescents.

The Webkinz polar bear became an instant hit because of its uniqueness and the possibility of extinction of its real-life counterpart within the next century.

Not just women - some species of birds were pushed to the edge of extinction because their feathers were in demand for hat adornment.

With the introduction of television, people were convinced radio would be forced into extinction, and with the advent of the Internet, no more need for TV.

The chief spokesman, Bal Thackery, called lesbianism "a sort of social AIDS" and worried that it would spread and lead to the eventual extinction of humanity.

This indictment against liberal thought from the standpoint of the theological school was afterwards answered in Spain by Averroes; but in Bagdad it heralded the extinction of the light of philosophy.