| Extinction | cease | en |
| extinction | complete disappearance of a species because of failure to adapt to environmental change | en |
| extinction | Blockage of the Sun's light caused by certain aerosols and gases in the atmosphere | en |
| extinction | A gradual reduction in the frequency of occurrence of an operant behavior that results from a lack of reinforcement of the response | en |
| extinction | Process where no more of a species live on our planet, e g dinosaurs are extinct Many species are threatened with extinction | en |
| extinction | A procedure in which reinforcement that previously followed a behavior is discontinued | en |
| extinction | is when a species of any animal, plant or creature is no longer found alive Back to Mammal main page | en |
| extinction | dying out of a species | en |
| extinction | The human-caused or natural process whereby a species or population ceases to exist (1) See Endangered Species, Threatened Species | en |
| extinction | A process for weakening behavior to its preconditioning level In the respondent model, it consists of continuous presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus In the operant model, it consists of withholding reinforcement after the response is emitted | en |
| extinction | The failure of a taxonomic group to produce direct descendants, causing its worldwide disappearance from the record at a given point in time | en |
| extinction | Reinforcement is withheld from a previously reinforced behavior and therefore the behavior decreases The goal of withholding reinforcement is to decrease the target behavior | en |
| extinction | State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim | en |
| extinction | The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc | en |
| extinction | The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation | en |
| extinction | the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights" | en |
| extinction | a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" | en |
| extinction | the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights" a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species" no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano | en |
| extinction | no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano | en |
| extinction | the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species" | en |
| extinction | extinguishment; annihilation, total destruction isim | en |
| extinction | The termination of any lineage of organisms, from subspecies to species and higher taxonomic categories from genera to phyla Extinction can be local, in which one or more populations of a species or other unit vanish but others survive elsewhere, or total (global), in which all the populations vanish When biologists speak of the extinction of a particular species without further qualification, they mean total extinction1 | en |
| extinction | complete annihilation; "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs" | en |
| extinction | a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus | en |
| extinction | The total disappearance of a species or higher taxon, so that it no longer exists anywhere | en |
| extinction | reduction in the intensity of the light (the number of photons) from a celestial body as the light passes through a dust cloud Dust clouds in space make stars behind the dust clouds appear dimmer than they would be if the dust was not there | en |
| extinction | the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | en |
| extinction | no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano" | en |
| extinction | The extinction of a species of animal or plant is the death of all its remaining living members. An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction | en |
| extinction | If someone refers to the extinction of a way of life or type of activity, they mean that the way of life or activity stops existing. The loggers say their jobs are faced with extinction because of declining timber sales. Dying out or termination of a species. It occurs when a species can no longer reproduce at replacement levels. Most past extinctions are thought to have resulted from environmental changes that the doomed species was either unable to adapt to or that caused it to adapt so thoroughly that it became a distinctly new species. The effect of humans on the environment, through hunting, collecting, and habitat destruction, has become the principal factor in plant and animal extinctions | en |
| extinction | no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species" | en |
| extinction | Extinction occurs when the behavior or response fades out over time due to non-reinforcement | en |
| extinction | the attenuation of light due to scattering and absorption as it passes through a medium | en |
| extinction | The dying out of a species of living thing, and its complete disappearance from the earth | en |
| extinction | The total disappearance of a species or taxon | en |
| extinction | Occurs when all the members of a specific kind of plant or animal have died | en |
| extinction | The total disappearance of a species of plant or animal Most widely known is the extinction of the dinosaurs | en |
| extinction | Used by biologists to describe the irreversible loss of a living species | en |
| extinction | The procedure in a conditioning experiment where the unconditioned stimulus or the reinforcer is no longer presented (Anderson) | en |
| extinction | The apparent dimming of star or planet when low on the horizon due to absorption by the Earth's atmosphere | en |
| extinction | Disappearance of a species from all or part of their geographic range Also see background extinction and mass extinction | en |
| extinction | When all the members of a clade or taxon die, the group is said to be extinct | en |
| extinctions | plural of extinction | en |