Extinction (disambiguation)

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

Film and television

 * "Extinction" (Star Trek: Enterprise), television episode
 * "Extinction" (Smallville episode), television episode
 * Resident Evil: Extinction, a 2007 film starring Milla Jovovich
 * Transformers: Age of Extinction, a 2014 Transformers film
 * Extinction (2015 film), a 2015 film starring Matthew Fox
 * Extinction (2018 film), a 2018 science fiction thriller film

Literature

 * Extinction (Forgotten Realms novel), a fantasy novel by Lisa Smedman
 * Extinction (Bernhard novel), a 1986 novel by Thomas Bernhard
 * Extinction, a science fiction novel by Ray Hammond

Video games

 * "Extinction", a game mode in the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
 * Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction, a 2003 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
 * Extinction (video game), a 2018 action game by Iron Galaxy

Other uses

 * 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