elimination

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

removal

annihilation

extermination

eradication

destruction

deletion

disposal

erasure

cancellation

liquidation

obliteration

riddance

exclusion

abolition

deposal

abrogation

negation

evacuation

reasoning by elimination

voiding

excreting

excretion

abolishment

expulsion

melting away

annulment

purge

dying out

unload

washout

work off

worthless

abortion

keeping out

removel

exposure

clear

clearing

deleting

detach

discarding

discharge

dispelling

disqualification

driving away

dumping

effacement

empty

erase

erasing

Translations

élimination

eliminazione

eliminación

Elimination

suppression

verwijdering

eliminação

eliminatie

αποκλεισμός

Beseitigung

eliminació

Eliminierung

Zurücknahme

κατάργηση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēliminātiō, from eliminate + -ion.

Sentences

Fuel capacity was greatly reduced , owing to the elimination of the wingtip tanks .