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noun
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, media, television
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noun
The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: accounting, business, finance
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noun
the murder of a competitor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: liquidation
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Broader terms: murder, slaying, execution
noun
the act of removing or getting rid of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: riddance
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Broader terms: removal, remotion
Narrower terms: simplification
noun
the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: removal, remotion
noun
analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: reasoning by elimination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: analysis, analytic thinking
noun
the bodily process of discharging waste matter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discharge, emission, expelling
Narrower terms: defecation, laxation, shitting, incontinence, incontinency, micturition, urination
History
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.
Across languages
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
