elimination

Substantiv

1. 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; […]

2. 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.

   Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.

3. 3

   The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

4. 4

   The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

5. 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. 6

   The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

7. 7

   The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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eliminations