Elimination
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Science and medicine

  • Elimination reaction
    Elimination reaction
    An elimination reaction is a type of organic reaction in which two substituents are removed from a molecule in either a one or two-step mechanism...

    , an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
  • Elimination, clearance
    Clearance (medicine)
    In medicine, the clearance is a measurement of the renal excretion ability. Although clearance may also involve other organs than the kidney, it is almost synonymous with renal clearance or renal plasma clearance. Each substance has a specific clearance that depends on its filtration characteristics...

     of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
  • Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease
    Infectious disease
    Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...

     in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world

Logic and mathematics

  • Elimination, the rule of inference known as the disjunctive syllogism
    Disjunctive syllogism
    A disjunctive syllogism, also known as disjunction-elimination and or-elimination , and historically known as modus tollendo ponens,, is a classically valid, simple argument form:where \vdash represents the logical assertion....

  • Elimination, with steps of elimination over linear equalities, using the Gaussian elimination
    Gaussian elimination
    In linear algebra, Gaussian elimination is an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations. It can also be used to find the rank of a matrix, to calculate the determinant of a matrix, and to calculate the inverse of an invertible square matrix...

     algorithm
  • Elimination, for systems of linear inequalities, using the Fourier–Motzkin elimination
    Fourier–Motzkin elimination
    Fourier–Motzkin elimination, FME method, is a mathematical algorithm for eliminating variables from a system of linear inequalities. It can look for both real and integer solutions...

     algorithm

Games and competitions

  • Elimination tournament (disambiguation), a knock-out style of tournament competition
  • Elimination (arcade game), 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games
  • Elimination, a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin
    Assassin (game)
    Assassin is a live-action game...

    , played with clothes-pins

Music

  • Elimination (Deceptikonz album), 2002
  • Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album)
    Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album)
    Elimination is Jughead's Revenge's third studio album, released in 1994. It was the first of the band's catalog to be licensed to and distributed by BYO Records...

    , 1994
  • "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay
    The Years of Decay
    The Years of Decay is the fourth studio album by thrash metal band Overkill. It was released in 1989 on the Megaforce label, with distribution handled by Atlantic Records...


Accounting

  • Elimination (Accounting), the act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions
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