Associations to the word «Elimination»

ELIMINATION, noun. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

ELIMINATION, noun. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

ELIMINATION, noun. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

ELIMINATION, noun. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

ELIMINATION, noun. (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.

ELIMINATION, noun. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

ELIMINATION, noun. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

ELIMINATION QUESTION, noun. A tie-breaker question in a quiz bowl, or one of a set of such.

ELIMINATION REACTION, noun. (chemistry) Any reaction in which a small molecule is removed from that of the reactant

ELIMINATION, noun. The act of removing or getting rid of something.

ELIMINATION, noun. The bodily process of discharging waste matter.

ELIMINATION, noun. Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives.

ELIMINATION, noun. The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations.

ELIMINATION, noun. The murder of a competitor.