elimination
/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off; The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition; The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition; The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories
- plural
- eliminations
Meanings
- 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 quantitiesrare
- 6
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deductionrare
- 7
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactionsrare