elimination

Etymology

From eliminate + -ion.

noun

1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. 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. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. (mathematics) 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. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
7. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.