Elimination : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Elimination	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Elimination
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elimination n the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: elimination, riddance] the bodily process of discharging waste matter Synonym(s): elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives Synonym(s): elimination, reasoning by elimination the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations the murder of a competitor Synonym(s): elimination, liquidation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elimination \Elim`ina"tion\, n. [Cf. F. [82]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.]