extraction
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The removal of a tooth from its socket in the alveolar bone.
The tooth is too badly broken down to restore, so extraction is unfortunately the most predictable option.
Law noun
The transfer of a substantial part of a database's contents to another medium, restricted by the database right.
The rival's systematic extraction of the classified ads breached the database right.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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