English Explanatory Dictionary

elimination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
  3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
  4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  5. 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.
  6. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  7. The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Pronunciation

/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elimination.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-elimination.wav

Word forms

elimination eliminations

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

Related words

eliminable eliminant eliminate eliminative eliminator eliminatory

Derived words

antielimination autoelimination bioelimination cycloelimination elim elimination diet eliminationism eliminationist elimination question elimination reaction elimination round Gaussian elimination Gauss-Jordan elimination Hofmann elimination microelimination nonelimination organ of elimination photoelimination process of elimination single-elimination tournament
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