elimination

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English Online Dictionary. What means elimination‎? What does elimination mean?

English

From eliminate +‎ -ion.

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
(television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
(biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
(mathematics) 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.
(logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
(accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.