elimination

Phrases
An user
Fuel   capacity   was   greatly   reduced owing to  the   elimination   of   the   wingtip   tanks .

La capacité de carburant a été considérablement réduite, en raison de l'élimination des réservoirs de TILTIP.

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
  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.
  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.
  6. (countable, uncountable) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  7. (countable, uncountable) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Fréquence

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Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

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