Definitions for elimination
ɪˌlɪm əˈneɪ ʃənelim·i·na·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. elimination, riddancenoun

   the act of removing or getting rid of something

2. elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voidingnoun

   the bodily process of discharging waste matter

3. elimination, reasoning by eliminationnoun

   analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

4. eliminationnoun

   the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

5. elimination, liquidationnoun

   the murder of a competitor

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eliminationnoun

   The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

2. eliminationnoun

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

3. eliminationnoun

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

4. eliminationnoun

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

5. eliminationnoun

   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.

6. eliminationnoun

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

7. eliminationnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eliminationnoun

   The act of banishing; the act of turning out of doors; rejection. Dict.

   Etymology: elimino, Latin.

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1. elimination

   Elimination generally refers to the process of removing or getting rid of something. It can also refer to excluding a part or member from a group, set, or whole. In science, particularly in biology and physiology, elimination refers to the expulsion of waste from the body. The specific definition often depends on the context in which the term is being used.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eliminationnoun

   the act of expelling or throwing off

2. Eliminationnoun

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

3. Eliminationnoun

   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. Eliminationnoun

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

5. Etymology: [Cf. F. limination.]

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1. Elimination

   Elimination is the debut album of New Zealand hip-hop group, the Deceptikonz released in 2002.

Matched Categories

1. • Analysis
   • Discharge
   • Murder
   • Removal

How to pronounce elimination?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say elimination in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of elimination in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of elimination in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of elimination in a Sentence

1. Rex Tillerson:

   That will part of the discussions when I visit Moscow next week is to call upon Foreign Minister Lavrov and the Russian government to fulfill the obligation it made to the international community when it agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons, and why Russia has not been able to achieve that is unclear to me. I don't draw conclusions of complicity at all, but clearly they've been incompetent and perhaps they've just simply been out-maneuvered by the Syrians.

2. Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002:

   Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

3. Michael Schadler:

   Tomato producers across America, including those in Arizona, California, the Carolinas, Florida, and Georgia will benefit from the elimination of the unfair trade practices we have seen from these Mexican tomato imports.

4. Vanna Bonta:

   How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

5. Mustafa Bali:

   Nothing remains in Baghouz except for terrorists. The battle ... will not end until the elimination of Daesh and the liberation of the village, we expect a fierce and heavy battle.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=elimination
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Elimination
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=elimination
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elimination
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=elimination