Elimination
[ɪ,lɪmɪ'neɪʃən] or [ɪ,lɪmə'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the murder of a competitor.
(noun.) the act of removing or getting rid of something.
(noun.) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations.
(noun.) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives.
(noun.) the bodily process of discharging waste matter.
Editor: Solomon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of expelling or throwing off
(n.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Inputed by Bruno
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exclusion, expulsion, rejection.[2]. Separation, disengagement.
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- In mountainous regions, the topography of the land prevents the elimination of all steep grades, but nevertheless the attempt is always made to follow the easiest grades. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Certainly the elimination of male from the suffrage qualifications will not end the feminist agitation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have already laid stress on the vast elimination of drudgery from human life through the creation of a new race of slaves, the machines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hence the elimination of the worthless gangue by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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