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Elimination   /ɪlˌɪmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Elimination

noun
1.
The act of removing or getting rid of something.  Synonym: riddance.
2.
The bodily process of discharging waste matter.  Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding.
3.
Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives.  Synonym: reasoning by elimination.
4.
The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations.
5.
The murder of a competitor.  Synonym: liquidation.



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"Elimination" Quotes from Famous Books



... him the one man in the United States who ought by fitness to have held his post. That he did hold it was, perhaps, one of the two or three essential facts which together made Northern success possible, by the elimination of unfair and extrinsic ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... the performance. Never had he seen pleasure and grace so happily allied, all the arts of life so combined in the single effort after enjoyment. Here was not a mere tendency to linger on the surface, but the essence of superficiality itself; not an ignoring of what lies beneath, but an elimination of it; as though all human experience should be beaten thin and spread out before the eye like some brilliant tenuous plaque of Etruscan gold. And in this science of pleasure—mere jeweller's work though it were—the greatest artists had collaborated, each contributing ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... free the vital organs and brings all parts into harmonious, normal activity, stimulates the circulation, quickens the metabolism of the cells and causes elimination. Each of these topics might ...
— How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions • S. S. Curry
... Elimination of what are distinctly NOT your vocations will help you toward finding those that ARE. To that end here are some tests which will clear up many things for you. They will help you to know especially whether or not the vocations you have been ...
— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
... GEORGE. What for? Its elimination would be a great moral example to Germany. Some nation must take the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 • Various


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