elim·i·na·tion /ɪˌlɪməˈneʃən/
  除去,消除,消滅
  elim·i·na·tion /ɪˌlɪməˈneʃən/ 名詞
  排除,消除,消失
  elimination
  刪除 消除
  E·lim·i·na·tion n.
  1. The act of expelling or throwing off; Physiol. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  2. Alg. 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.
  3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
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  elimination
       n 1: the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: riddance]
       2: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: evacuation,
           excretion, excreting, voiding]
       3: analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities
          followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable
          alternatives [syn: reasoning by elimination]
       4: the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by
          combining equations
       5: the murder of a competitor [syn: liquidation]