Declivity vs Extraction - What's the difference?
declivity | extraction | Related terms |
(geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill
*1899 , Joseph Conrad,
*:A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned–up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity .
a downward bend in a path
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
* Milton
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Declivity is a related term of extraction.
As nouns the difference between declivity and extraction
is that declivity is (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill while extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.declivity
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(en noun)- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
