elimination

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elimination (enc)

Noun	1.	elimination - the act of removing or getting rid of something riddance remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy" simplification - elimination of superfluous details
	2.	elimination - the bodily process of discharging waste matter excreting, excretion, voiding, evacuation 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
	3.	elimination - analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives reasoning by elimination analytic thinking, analysis - the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
	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"
	5.	elimination - the murder of a competitor liquidation murder, slaying, execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

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