Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

    Elimination

    элиминацияeliminacija

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

    Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

    the bodily process of discharging waste matter

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Elimination

    the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

  6. (countable, uncountable)The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

    Elimination

  7. (countable, uncountable)The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. It was a matter of elimination.

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  2. You need to start an elimination diet.

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  3. Lorenzo took part in the single elimination tournament.

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  4. Tom started an elimination diet to identify the cause of his fatigue.

    deTom begann eine Ausschlussdiät, um die Ursache seiner Erschöpfung identifizieren zu können.

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  5. You cannot create a settler state without the elimination of the natives.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
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act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

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Forms

plural: eliminations
Singularelimination
Pluraleliminations

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

21 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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