elimination

Plural: eliminations

Noun

• the act of removing or getting rid of something
• the bodily process of discharging waste matter
• analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
• the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
• the murder of a competitor
• 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.
• 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.
• The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
• The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Examples

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

Synonyms

evacuation, excreting, excretion, liquidation, reasoning by elimination, riddance, voiding

Related Words

eliminable, eliminant, eliminate, eliminative, eliminator, eliminatory