elimination

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Synonyms: examination, elicitation, limitation, lumination, eliminating, crimination, delimitation, lamination, delamination, eliminator, eliminative

Antonyms: examination, elicitation, limitation, lumination, eliminating, crimination, delimitation, lamination, delamination, eliminator, eliminative

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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]].
3. {{lb|en|television}} The act of [[voting]] off or [[throwing]] off a [[contestant]] in a [[reality television]] [[competition]].
4. {{lb|en|biology}} The act of [[discharging]] or [[excreting]] [[waste]] products or foreign substances through the various [[emunctory|emunctories]].
5. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|logic}} The act of obtaining by [[separation]], or as the result of eliminating; [[deduction]].
7. {{lb|en|accounting}} The act of recording amounts in a [[w:Consolidation (business)#More than 50% ownership—subsidiary|consolidation statement]] to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.<ref>{{cite-web |title=FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations) |titleurl=http://www.findmybestcpa.com/Accinfo/Consolidated-Statements-(Interco-eliminations)/161.html |accessdate=14 April 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308114407/http://www.findmybestcpa.com/Accinfo/Consolidated-Statements-(Interco-eliminations)/161.html |archivedate=8 March 2011 }}</ref>

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