From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elimination \E*lim'i*na"tion\, noun [Cf. F. ['e]limination.]
1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2. (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.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See {Eliminate}, 4.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: {riddance}]
2: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {evacuation}, {excretion}, {excreting}, {voiding}]
3: analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives [syn: {reasoning by elimination}]
4: the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
5: the murder of a competitor [syn: {liquidation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "elimination": abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, assassination, bloody murder, bumping-off, castaway, castoff, choking, choking off, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, deep six, defecation, depletion, deportation, deracination, destruction, detachment, discard, discarding, discharge, discharging cargo, disjunction, disposal, disposition, drainage, draining, dumping, effusion, egestion, egress, ejaculation, ejection, emission, emptying, eradication, evacuation, excision, exclusion, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, foul play, homicide, jettison, junking, liquidation, manslaughter, murder, mutilation, negation, nullification, off-loading, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, purge, purging, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, removal, rescission, riddance, rooting out, scrapping, secretion, severance, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, throwaway, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, transudation, unloading, uprooting, venting, voidance, voiding, withdrawal
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