Extinction, in biology and palaeontology, is the end of a species or other taxon.
Extinction may also refer to:
Science
- Mass extinction, or extinction event, a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
- Human extinction (end of the human species)
- Language extinction, or language death
- Extinction (another word for attenuation), in physical sciences
- Extinction coefficient (another term for mass attenuation coefficient), in physical sciences
- Extinction (astronomy)
- Extinction (optical mineralogy), when cross-polarized light dims, as viewed through a thin section of a mineral in a petrographic microscope
- Bird's eye extinction, in optical mineralogy
- Undulose extinction, a geological term
- EwaldâÂÂOseen extinction theorem in optics, when light changes media
- Extinction (psychology), when a conditioned response is reduced or lost
- Extinction (neurology), a neurological disorder that impairs the ability to perceive multiple stimuli of the same type simultaneously
Film and television
Literature
Video games
- "Extinction", a game mode in the video game '
- ', a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
- Extinction (video game), a 2018 action game by Iron Galaxy
Other uses
See also