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Taking the valuable part and leaving the rest to apologize for existing.
means The act of pulling, drawing, or forcing something out from where it's embedded — a tooth, a mineral, a confession, a conclusion from a pile of data.
from From Latin extractus, past participle of extrahere — 'to draw out,' built from ex- ('out') plus trahere ('to drag, pull'). Trahere is a stubborn old root that also gives English 'tract,' 'traction,' and 'treaty' (a negotiation being, etymologically, something dragged out of people). The word entered English in the 1400s already carrying the sense of forcibly removing something lodged where it didn't want to leave.
- coffee extraction
- under-extracted tastes sour, over-extracted tastes bitter
- colonial economics
- extractive economies built wealth elsewhere, poverty at home
- data extraction
- scraping websites counts, legally, as extraction too
- chemistry origin
- first used for pulling essential oils from plants