ELIMINATION

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)

2.
n.

the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

3.
n.

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.

4.
n.

The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,


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