elimination

Значение

1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
3. The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. 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. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
7. The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Произносится как (IPA)

/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

Этимология

From eliminate + -ion.

Предложения

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

Топливная емкость была значительно снижена благодаря устранению резервуаров для крыла.