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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Elimination

/ĭl-ĭmˌ-ən-āsh'-ən/ · E·lim·i·na·tion · IPA /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
01 n. The act of expelling or throwing off
  1. 1.
    The act of expelling or throwing off(Physiol.)
  2. 2.
    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.(Alg.)
  3. 3.
    The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.] See: Eliminate