About The Word Elimination

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Elimination

Elimination Meaning & Definition
Elimination Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elimination?

[n] the murder of a competitor
[n] the act of removing or getting rid of something
[n] the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
[n] analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
[n] the bodily process of discharging waste matter

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elimination: evacuation | excreting | excretion | liquidation | reasoning by elimination | riddance | voiding

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elimination: abolishment | abolition | abscission | amputation | annihilation | annulment | assassination | bloody murder | bumping-off | castaway | castoff | choking | choking off | cleaning out | clearance | clearing | deep six | defecation | depletion | deportation | deracination | destruction | detachment | discard | discarding | discharge | discharging cargo | disjunction | disposal | disposition | drainage | draining | dumping | effusion | egestion | egress | ejaculation | ejection | emission | emptying | eradication | evacuation | excision | exclusion | excretion | exhausting | exhaustion | exile | expatriation | expulsion | extermination | extinction | extinguishment | extirpation | extravasation | extrusion | exudation | flow | flux | foul play | homicide | jettison | junking | liquidation | manslaughter | murder | mutilation | negation | nullification | off-loading | ostracism | outlawing | outlawry | purge | purging | refuse | reject | rejectamenta | rejection | removal | rescission | riddance | rooting out | scrapping | secretion | severance | silencing | snuffing out | stifling | strangulation | suffocation | suppression | suspension | throwaway | thuggee | thuggery | thuggism | transudation | unloading | uprooting | venting | voidance | voiding | withdrawal

See Also | analysis | analytic thinking | defecation | discharge | emission | execution | expelling | homicide | incontinence | incontinency | laxation | micturition | murder | remotion | removal | shitting | simplification | slaying | urination

Elimination In Webster's Dictionary

\E*lim`i*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]limination.] 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. 2. (Alg.) 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. 3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See {Eliminate}, 4.]

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