English-Portuguese translations for extinction

• extinção
  O atum rabilho corre o perigo imediato de extinção. Bluefin tuna is in immediate danger of extinction.
  Existem actualmente mais de 30 000 espécies ameaçadas de extinção. Over 30 000 species are currently threatened with extinction.
  Presidimos a um dos grandes períodos de extinção do mundo. We preside over one of the world's great periods of extinction.

Definition of extinction

• The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation
• The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer

Related words

• coextinction
• mass extinction
• species extinction
• cinema extinction
• insects extinction
• to complete the extinction