elimination Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

E*lim`i*na"tion noun
Etymology
Cf. F. élimination.
Definitions
  1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  2. (Alg.) 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.
  3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, #4]

Webster 1913