elimination | | |
n. (act) | 1. elimination, riddance | the act of removing or getting rid of something. |
| ~ remotion, removal | the act of removing.; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" |
| ~ simplification | elimination of superfluous details. |
n. (process) | 2. elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding | the bodily process of discharging waste matter. |
| ~ defecation, laxation, shitting | the elimination of fecal waste through the anus. |
| ~ expelling, discharge, emission | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.; "the discharge of pus" |
| ~ incontinence, incontinency | involuntary urination or defecation. |
| ~ micturition, urination | the discharge of urine. |
n. (cognition) | 3. elimination, reasoning by elimination | analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives. |
| ~ analytic thinking, analysis | the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations. |
n. (act) | 4. elimination | the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations. |
| ~ remotion, removal | the act of removing.; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" |
n. (act) | 5. elimination, liquidation | the murder of a competitor. |
| ~ murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being. |
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