elimination
See also: élimination and Elimination
English
Etymology
From eliminate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)
- 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.[1]
Derived terms
- elimination diet
- elimination question
- elimination reaction
- Gaussian elimination
- Gauss-Jordan elimination
- process of elimination
- single-elimination tournament
Related terms
- eliminable
- eliminant
- eliminate
- eliminative
- eliminator
- eliminatory
Translations
act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off
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act of discharging or excreting waste products
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act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation
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act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction
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act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions
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References
- “FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)”, in (please provide the title of the work), accessed 14 April 2011, archived from the original on 2011-03-08