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.
   • 1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91:

     The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]

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.

   • 2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times‎^[2], London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-01:

     Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.

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

• antielimination
• autoelimination
• bioelimination
• cycloelimination
• elimination diet
• eliminationism
• eliminationist
• elimination question
• elimination reaction
• elimination round
• Gaussian elimination
• Gauss-Jordan elimination
• Hofmann elimination
• microelimination
• nonelimination
• organ of elimination
• photoelimination
• 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 (hu)
• Italian: eliminazione (it) f
• 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 (hu), 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)
• Italian: eliminazione (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: افنا (ifna)
• 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)