elimination
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elimination
- /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.
noun eliminations
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.
- The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- 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.
- The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: riddance, evacuation, liquidation, excreting, voiding, excretion, abolishment, removal, remove, abolish, removing, dispel, deletion, eliminate, dispose, disposer
Translations
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noun act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off
| Español | eliminación |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | उन्मूलन unmūlan |
| Français | élimination |
| Deutsch | Elimination |
| Italiano | eliminazione |
| Ελληνικά | εξάλειψη exáleipsi, εξοβελισμός exovelismós |
| Română | eliminare |
| Русский | элиминация eliminacija |
| العربية | حذف |
noun act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation
| Deutsch | Elimination |
|---|---|
| Italiano | eliminazione |
| Ελληνικά | απαλοιφή apaloifí |
| Română | eliminare |
noun act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction
| Deutsch | Elimination |
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