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 Definitions of Elimination  [ɪˌlɪm əˈneɪ ʃən]  

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Definition of 'Elimination' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) elimination
the act of eliminating or the state of being eliminated.

2.  elimination
the process of solving a system of simultaneous equations by using various techniques to remove the variables successively.

3.  elimination
(in a tournament) a contest in which an individual or team is eliminated after one defeat.

Etymology:  (1595–1605)

Definition of 'Elimination' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) elimination, riddance
the act of removing or getting rid of something

2. (noun) elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
the bodily process of discharging waste matter

3. (noun) elimination, reasoning by elimination
analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

4. (noun) elimination
the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

5. (noun) elimination, liquidation
the murder of a competitor


Definition of 'Elimination' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) elimination
the process of eliminating
the elimination of discrimination

2.  elimination
the act or process eliminating from a competition
The losing team will face elimination.


Definition of 'Elimination' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Elimination
the act of expelling or throwing off

2. (noun) Elimination
the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories

3. (noun) Elimination
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

4. (noun) Elimination
the act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]



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