Elimination
WordNet
noun
(1) The murder of a competitor
(2) The act of removing or getting rid of something
(3) The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
(4) Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
(5) The bodily process of discharging waste matter
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
Related terms
- eliminable
- eliminant
- eliminate
- eliminative
- eliminator
- eliminatory