Extinction (disambiguation)
# 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
