elimination

See also: élimination and Elimination

English

Etymology

From eliminate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

   Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.

3. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. (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.
6. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
7. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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

• Arabic: حذف‎
• Bulgarian: отстраняване (bg) n (otstranjavane)
• Czech: odstranění (cs) n, eliminace f
• French: élimination (fr) f
• Galician: eliminación (gl) f
• Georgian: აღმოფხვრა (aɣmopxvra), ელიმინაცია (eliminacia) (colloquial)
• German: Elimination (de) f
• Greek: εξάλειψη (el) f (exáleipsi), εξοβελισμός (el) m (exovelismós)
• Hungarian: kiküszöbölés (hu), kiiktatás
• Maori: whakamōtītanga
• Polish: eliminacja (pl) f
• Romanian: eliminare (ro) f
• Russian: элиминация (ru) f (eliminacija)
• Spanish: eliminación (es) f
• Tajik: ҳазф (tg) (hazf)

act of discharging or excreting waste products

• Galician: eliminación (gl) f
• Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)
• Hungarian: kiürülés, kiürítés (hu)
• Romanian: eliminare (ro) f

act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation

• Bulgarian: съкращаване (bg) n (sǎkraštavane)
• Galician: eliminación (gl) f
• German: Elimination (de) f
• Greek: απαλοιφή (el) f (apaloifí)
• Romanian: eliminare (ro) f

act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction

• German: Elimination (de) f

act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions

• Finnish: eliminointi (fi)