elimination

1. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.countableuncountable

2. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.countableuncountable

3. (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.countableuncountable

4. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.countableuncountable

5. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.countableuncountable