Extinction (disambiguation)

Extinction is in biology and palaeontology, the end of a species or other taxon.

Extinction may also refer to:

Extinction (peerage), in the United Kingdom, happens when all possible heirs of a peer have died out

Science

Mass extinction, or extinction event, a widespread and rapid decrease in the amount of life on earth
- Human extinction, the end of the human species
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

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", a song by Stigmata from the album Hollow Dreams
"Extinction", a minigame in the popular Call of Duty game Ghosts
"Extinction" (Star Trek: Enterprise), television episode
"Extinction" (Smallville episode), television episode
Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction, a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
Resident Evil: Extinction, a 2007 film starring Milla Jovovich
Transformers: Age of Extinction, a Transformers movie
Extinction (film), a 2015 film starring Matthew Fox