elimination en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
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(countable, uncountable) 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.
2019 June 13, Sam Damshenas, “Drag Race star Plastique Tiara wants to be a "pioneer" for the queer Asian community”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2021:
- (countable, uncountable) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| eliminations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
elimination round · bioelimination · process of elimination · antielimination · Gaussian elimination · autoelimination · cycloelimination · elimination reaction · eliminationism · microelimination · eliminationist · elimination diet · nonelimination · single-elimination tournament · elim · Gauss-Jordan elimination · organ of elimination · Hofmann elimination · photoelimination · elimination question
Relateds
eliminate · eliminant · eliminative · eliminator · eliminatory · eliminable
Translations (43)
mi whakamōtītanga (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · fi eliminointi (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · hu kiürülés (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · fi eliminointi (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · pl eliminacja (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ka აღმოფხვრა (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · fi eliminointi (act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions) · fi poistaminen (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · fi poistaminen (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · es eliminación (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · de Elimination (act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction) · el εξοβελισμός (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · hi उन्मूलन (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · la eliminatio (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · gl eliminación (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · cs eliminace (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ka ელიმინაცია (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · gl eliminación (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · bg съкращаване (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · hu kiiktatás (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · fr élimination (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ro eliminare (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · el εξάλειψη (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ro eliminare (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · bg отстраняване (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · hu kiküszöbölés (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · el αποβολή (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · fi eliminointi (act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction) · fi eliminointi (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · it eliminazione (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · hu kiürítés (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · gl eliminación (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · it eliminazione (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · ota افنا (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · el απαλοιφή (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · fi hylkääminen (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · de Elimination (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · de Elimination (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation) · ru элиминация (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ro eliminare (act of discharging or excreting waste products) · cs odstranění (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · ar حذف (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off) · tg ҳазф (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off)