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noun

Elimination n.

The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

(Alg.) 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.

The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. (See Eliminate, 4.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elimination" Quotes from Famous Books

... among potential adversaries. We pledge perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments to those necessary for each nation's own domestic safety. And we will move this year a step toward ultimate goal—the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this Earth. We urge all other people to join us, for success can mean ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... in dyeing and other arts—(particularly on their employment, as dye agents, by the natives of Britain and other countries)—with specimens of the lichens so used, and their common names—specimens of fabrics dyed therewith—notes of the processes employed for the elimination of the dyes, &c. Parties resident in, or travelling through our western Highlands and Islands, the northern Highlands, Ireland, Wales, Norway, Iceland, and similar countries, are most likely to be able ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... said Guerchard, with a husky laugh. "By that well-known logical process, the process of elimination, we've excluded all methods of egress ...

— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson

... individual, where the physiological functions are performed with exactitude and regularity, the elimination of the various effete matters, the result of waste of tissue, is uniform, and easily carried off out of the system by the skin, the kidneys, lungs, and bowels. The nitrogenous components become oxidised, and urea ultimately formed, which being very soluble is freely excreted ...

— Buxton and its Medicinal Waters • Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet

... recognised the toes of them protruding from beneath the window-curtain. She dismissed the theory that Mr. Noaks might have gone utterly unshod to the river. She scouted the hypothesis that his ghost could be shod thus. By process of elimination she arrived at the truth. "Mr. Noaks," she said quietly, "come out ...

— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm

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