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

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Eliminationnoun

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

   Etymology: elimino, Latin.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

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   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. Whun Cheon:

   Kim Jong will never spell such words as' renunciation' or' elimination' of nukes, or returning to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapons state.

2. Jeb Bush:

   This started, remember, when he himself struggled about what his accomplishments have been, the accomplishments that his campaign offered up -- supporting a bill that became law where he didn't vote for it, taking credit for the elimination of a risk order inside of Obamacare that he didn't sponsor and the passage of one law with (Sen.) Jeanne Shaheen as a sponsor that I'm sure is a good bill. That's it, that's all you can point to.

3. David Soucie:

   On a forensic investigation, which is what's going on in France, you don't use the process of elimination and say, well, it must be a flap, you have to have forensic proof, which is the samples from the paint, from the metal, to tie it specifically to the aircraft. That's what they're waiting for, and that's what they mean by 100% conclusive.

4. Ben Bishop:

   When you lose Game 5 and are one game from elimination, you're not in the best mood. When you come back, you're on a high. You definitely have to learn to control that, when you're down, it's not over. When you're up, it's not over either. You can take a lot from that.

5. Lin Yutang:

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

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