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eliminations

eliminations is the plural of elimination.

Meaning of elimination

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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Questions about eliminations

What is eliminations the plural of?
Eliminations is the plural of elimination.

Words near eliminations in the dictionary

  1. elimination reactions
  2. elimination round
  3. eliminationism
  4. eliminationist
  5. eliminationists
  6. eliminations
  7. eliminative
  8. eliminative behaviorism
  9. eliminative behaviourism
  10. eliminative materialism
  11. eliminativism

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