elim

Noun

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
   • 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; […]1977 June 13, Computerworld, volume 11, number 24, page 91
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. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. 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. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

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