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Definitions for: Elimination
[n] the murder of a competitor
[n] the act of removing or getting rid of something
[n] the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
[n] analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
[n] the bodily process of discharging waste matter
Webster (1913) Definition: E*lim`i*na"tion, n. [Cf. F. ['e]limination.]
1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act
of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign
substances through the various emunctories.
2. (Alg.) 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.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of
eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, liquidation, reasoning by elimination, riddance, voiding
See Also: analysis, analytic thinking, defecation, discharge, emission, execution, expelling, homicide, incontinence, incontinency, laxation, micturition, murder, remotion, removal, shitting, simplification, slaying, urination
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