elimination.
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
Meaning & usage
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
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.
The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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.
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.