LekhoriLekhoriThe action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
Thirteen long centuries have elapsed since the extinction of the last Zoroastrian Empire[…]
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.
From late Middle English, borrowed from Latin extinctio (“extinction, annihilation”), from extinguere, past participle extinctus (“to extinguish”); see extinguish.
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