What does elimination mean?

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

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  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 Dictionary

  1. Eliminationnoun

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

    Etymology: elimino, Latin.

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  1. Elimination

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

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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. Anthony Fauci:

    We do not know that and I think we have to be openly honest about that, when I talk about the pandemic I put it into five phases. The truly pandemic phase where the whole world is really very negatively impacted – as we are right now. Then there's the deceleration of the pandemic. Then there's control. There's elimination and eradication.

  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. Dawn Aponte:

    We also issued a memo that covered post-elimination protocols, they apply for seven days following (a teams) elimination, and include daily testing and other protocols that will remain in place. Following those seven days, the testing would be handed over to the club for how they would like to conduct that.

  4. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern:

    We have the opportunity to do something no other country has achieved: elimination of the virus.

  5. Jonathan White:

    We share concern that I think everyone in this room feels. Anytime a child is abused in the care of ORR is one too many, we abide fully with the laws this Congress has passed, in terms of Prison Rape Elimination Act, I mean the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

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