Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elimination"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Elimination \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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
elimination
n 1: the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: {riddance}]
2: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {evacuation},
{excretion}, {excreting}, {voiding}]
3: analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities
followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable
alternatives [syn: {reasoning by elimination}]
4: the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by
combining equations
5: the murder of a competitor [syn: {liquidation}]
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