elimination
IPA: ɪɫɪmʌnˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "elimination" in Sentences
- Most of their goals, at least in elimination rounds leading to the final, came from defenders.
- When those options are eliminated through any means that process of elimination is anti-freedom
- The Hawks had been 3-0 in elimination games in the last two postseasons before Sunday's defeat.
- The two ministries have long been the target of criticism but analysts say their elimination is unlikely to lead to major savings.
- Heck, at a thousand yards you can talk with your normal voice, scent elimination is not important and even concelement is not nessary.
- Meanwhile, the New York Yankees avoided elimination from the American League Championship Series by posting a 7-2 rout over the visiting Texas Rangers.
- The United States Postal Service (USPS) has requested the United States Congres to amend the laws requiring six day postal delivery and instead require five day postal delivery, which would likely result in elimination of Saturday delivery or sometime mid-week.
- When those options are eliminated through any means that process of elimination is anti-freedom (I earn a salary but can only shop at one or two places which I have to drive to, because those one or two places have a geographic monopoly and have eliminated all of my other options).
- Becoming more attuned to the relationship of this figure of the castrato to romantic-era culture not only revises his history in the period, namely that his elimination cannot be associated as a quintessentially romantic endeavor, but also allows us to revise our understanding of the relationship between sight and sound on which the fantasy of his elimination is at least in part based.
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