elimination

[E*lim`i*na·tion]

Elimination is the process of getting rid of something, whether it’s waste, errors, or the competition.

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The act of expelling or throwing off

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the murder of a competitor

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the act of removing or getting rid of something

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the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

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analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives

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the bodily process of discharging waste matter

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The act of expelling or throwing off

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the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

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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.

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The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]

Elimination

E*lim`i*na"tion , n. [Cf. F. '82limination.] 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.]

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Usage Examples

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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Other Usage Examples

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.