ELIMINATION

elimination. Elimination, n. a forcing out or expelling

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E‐lim′i‐na″tion (?), n. [[Cf. F. élimination.]] 1. 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. 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. 3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]