Ex*ter`mi*na"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. extermination.]

1.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

2. Math.

Elimination.

[R.]

 

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