elimination

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate +‎ -ion. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ 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. Hyponyms: urination, defecation (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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References ===