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elimination
Found in thesaurus: remotion, removal, emission, discharge, expelling, analytic thinking, analysis, execution, murder, slaying
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elimination
n.
removal, act of getting rid of; omission, act of leaving out; process of solving simultaneous equations by removing the variables (Algebra)
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Elimination
Elimination may refer to:
Science and medicine
- Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
- Bodily waste elimination, discharging feces, urine, or foreign substances from the body via defecation, urination, and emesis
- Drug elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
- Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world
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elimination
Noun
1. the act of removing or getting rid of something
(synonym) riddance
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(hyponym) simplification
(derivation) eliminate, get rid of, do away with
2. the bodily process of discharging waste matter
(synonym) evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
(hypernym) discharge, emission, expelling
(hyponym) defecation, laxation, shitting
(derivation) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
3. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
(synonym) reasoning by elimination
(hypernym) analysis, analytic thinking
4. the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(derivation) eliminate
5. the murder of a competitor
(synonym) liquidation
(hypernym) murder, slaying, execution
(derivation) eliminate, get rid of, do away with
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Elimination (die)
nf.
elimination, removal, act of getting rid of; (Algebra) process of solving simultaneous equations by removing the variables
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élimination
nf.
elimination, removal; cancellation, nullification
