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
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Noun



  1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
  3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
  4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  5. 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.
  6. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

Related terms

  • eliminable
  • eliminant
  • eliminate
  • eliminative
  • eliminator
  • eliminatory
 
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