elimination

n. removal, act of getting rid of; omission, act of leaving out; process of solving simultaneous equations by removing the variables (Algebra)

Elimination can refer to several things:In chemistry, an elimination reaction is a one- or two-step organic reaction in which two functional groups combine to form a larger organic product with a new bond such as an ester, amide, or ether. There is also a small product; e.g., water or an acid.In pharmacology, elimination (or clearance) refers to all the processes that remove a drug or other foreign agent from the body. These include excretion and metabolism.Single elimination and double elimination are styles of tournament competition. Elimination! is a 1974 arcade game by  Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games.Elimination is a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothespins.Elimination is a variant on dodgeball.Eliminator is ZZ Top's 8th studio album, released in 1983.Elimination is Jughead's Revenge's 3rd studio album, released in 1994.Elimination is the second song from Overkill's album The Years of DecayIn mathematics, eliminating a variable from a system of relations means obtaining a system of the same kind that has the same solutions over the remaining variables. Depending on the kind of system, various elimination techniques exist:Gaussian elimination is a matrix operation, that produces "reduced row echelon form", with steps of elimination over linear equalities;Fourier-Motzkin elimination for systems of linear inequalities.
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Elimination /elim·i·na·tion/ 1. the act of expulsion or extrusion, especially expulsion from the body. 2. omission or exclusion. e·lim·i·na·tion n. [more]Elimination - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the act of removing or getting rid of something
(synonym) riddance
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(hyponym) simplification
(derivation) eliminate, get rid of, do away with
2. the bodily process of discharging waste matter
(synonym) evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding
(hypernym) discharge, emission, expelling
(hyponym) defecation, laxation, shitting
(derivation) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
3. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
(synonym) reasoning by elimination
(hypernym) analysis, analytic thinking
4. the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
(hypernym) removal, remotion
(derivation) eliminate
5. the murder of a competitor
(synonym) liquidation
(hypernym) murder, slaying, execution
(derivation) eliminate, get rid of, do away with

n. elimination, removal, act of getting rid of; (Algebra) process of solving simultaneous equations by removing the variables