Elimination

//ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. countable, uncountable

    "The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]"

  2. 2
    the murder of a competitor wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. countable, uncountable

    "Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup."

  4. 4
    the act of removing or getting rid of something wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations wordnet
  2. 7
    The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives wordnet
  4. 9
    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. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    the bodily process of discharging waste matter wordnet
  6. 11
    The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

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