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Elimination
//ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n// noun
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Noun
- 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 the murder of a competitor wordnet
- 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 the act of removing or getting rid of something wordnet
- 5 The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. countable, uncountable
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- 6 the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations wordnet
- 7 The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. countable, uncountable
- 8 analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives wordnet
- 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
- 10 the bodily process of discharging waste matter wordnet
- 11 The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. countable, uncountable
- 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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