ELIMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elimination mean? 

• ELIMINATION (noun)
  The noun ELIMINATION has 5 senses:

1. the act of removing or getting rid of something

2. the bodily process of discharging waste matter

3. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

4. the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

5. the murder of a competitor

  Familiarity information: ELIMINATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELIMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing or getting rid of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

elimination; riddance

Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elimination"):

simplification (elimination of superfluous details)

Derivation:

eliminate (terminate, end, or take out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elimination"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

eliminate (eliminate from the body)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

elimination; reasoning by elimination

Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):

analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Derivation:

eliminate (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The murder of a competitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

elimination; liquidation

Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):

execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Derivation:

eliminate (terminate, end, or take out)

 Context examples 

Buccal route bypasses first pass metabolism and avoids pre-systemic elimination in the gastrointestinal tract.

(Buccal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The magnitude of the local advantage depends on substance exchange between the local and the blood compartments and on substance elimination from these compartments.

(Intrapericardial Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the reduction or elimination of the enzyme mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase which is responsible for the metabolism of the amino acid isoleucine and ketone-body metabolism.

(Beta-Ketothiolase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Your health care provider may use a detailed history, elimination diet, and skin and blood tests to diagnose a food allergy.

(Food Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A nursing specialty devoted to control and elimination of nosocomial infection risk in a clinical setting.

(Infection Control Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)

The elimination half-life is about 40 to 50 hours.

(Chlorthalidone, NCI Thesaurus)

Glucuronic acid is highly soluble in water and is often linked to poisonous substances to allow for subsequent elimination and to hormones to allow for easier transport.

(Glucuronidation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus)

Hsps are a group of homodimeric molecular chaperones that interact with a diverse group of proteins, assisting in their folding and in the elimination of any misfolded or damaged molecules.

(Heat Shock Protein Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Elimination of the signal peptide through an alternative translation site may generate a cytosolic housekeeping protein.

(Hypoxia Up-Regulated 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)