Extinction (disambiguation) explained

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
- Ewald–Oseen 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

Extinction (peerage), in the United Kingdom, happens when all possible heirs of a peer have died out
"Extinction", a song by Stigmata from the album Hollow Dreams
Extinction (album), a 1990 album by Nausea
Extinction Rebellion, environmental campaign