title: Extinction (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  