extinção
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin extīnctiōnem, from extīnctus, perfect passive participle of extīnguō (“to extinguish”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ex‧tin‧ção
Noun
[edit]extinção f (plural extinções)
- extinguishment (act of putting out a fire)
- Synonym: apagamento
- Extinção de incêndios florestais.
- Extinguishment of wildfires.
- extinction; annihilation; eradication; destruction
- Synonyms: aniquilação, desaparecimento, destruição, erradicação, fim
- Extinção do Império Romano.
- Destruction of the Roman Empire.
- abolition (act of abolishing)
- Synonyms: abolição, revogamento, supressão
- Extinção da escravidão.
- Abolition of slavery.
- (ecology) extinction (the disappearance of a species from a region, or as a whole)
- Synonym: desaparecimento
- Extinção dos dinossauros.
- Extinction of the dinosaurs.
- the act of slaking lime to produce slaked lime
- Synonym: queima
- A extinção da cal é feita com a adição de água à mesma.
- The slaking of lime is done by adding water to it.
- (astronomy) extinction (absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation)
- Graças à extinção, podemos olhar diretamente ao sol quando ele está no horizonte.
- Thanks to extinction, we can look directly at the sun when it’s in the horizon.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extinção” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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