"elimination" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elimination.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-elimination.wav [US] Forms: eliminations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From eliminate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|eliminate|ion}} eliminate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)
  1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off): حذف (Arabic), отстраняване (otstranjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), odstranění [neuter] (Czech), eliminace [feminine] (Czech), élimination [feminine] (French), eliminación [feminine] (Galician), აღმოფხვრა (aɣmopxvra) (Georgian), ელიმინაცია (eliminacia) [colloquial] (Georgian), Elimination [feminine] (German), εξάλειψη (exáleipsi) [feminine] (Greek), εξοβελισμός (exovelismós) [masculine] (Greek), kiküszöbölés (Hungarian), kiiktatás (Hungarian), whakamōtītanga (Maori), eliminacja [feminine] (Polish), eliminare [feminine] (Romanian), элиминация (eliminacija) [feminine] (Russian), eliminación [feminine] (Spanish), ҳазф (hazf) (Tajik)
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-vJArfH-2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 2 20 19 18 9 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 24 5 23 16 15 9 8 Disambiguation of 'act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off': 57 3 19 6 5 7 4
  2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-YjVFSMay
  3. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Television
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-sOcvtfvJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 2 20 19 18 9 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 24 5 23 16 15 9 8 Topics: broadcasting, media, television
  4. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology Translations (act of discharging or excreting waste products): eliminación [feminine] (Galician), αποβολή (apovolí) [feminine] (Greek), kiürülés (Hungarian), kiürítés (Hungarian), eliminare [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-CYJcpzk7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 2 20 19 18 9 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 24 5 23 16 15 9 8 Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'act of discharging or excreting waste products': 14 4 11 47 10 7 6
  5. (mathematics) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematics Translations (act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation): съкращаване (sǎkraštavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), eliminación [feminine] (Galician), Elimination [feminine] (German), απαλοιφή (apaloifí) [feminine] (Greek), eliminare [feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-GR0RT6Jg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 2 20 19 18 9 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 24 5 23 16 15 9 8 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation': 7 6 6 6 64 6 5
  6. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Logic Translations (act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction): Elimination [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-Hv83mF-G Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction': 6 2 4 3 4 78 3
  7. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Accounting Translations (act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions): eliminointi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-elimination-en-noun-EnbTekqL Topics: accounting, business, finance Disambiguation of 'act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of intercompany transactions': 8 5 10 7 8 7 55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: elimination diet, elimination question, elimination reaction, Gaussian elimination, Gauss-Jordan elimination, Hofmann elimination, organ of elimination, process of elimination, single-elimination tournament Related terms: eliminable, eliminant, eliminate, eliminative, eliminator, eliminatory

Inflected forms

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