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elimination

noun
/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from ēliminātiō

Definitions

  1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

    • 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 act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

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

  3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the…

      The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

    2. The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation

      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.

    3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating

      The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

    4. The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of…

      The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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Derived

antielimination, autoelimination, bioelimination, cycloelimination, elim, elimination diet, eliminationism, eliminationist, elimination question, elimination reaction, elimination round, Gaussian elimination, Gauss-Jordan elimination, Hofmann elimination, microelimination, nonelimination, organ of elimination, photoelimination, process of elimination, single-elimination tournament

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elimination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA