Elimination may refer to:
Science and medicine
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Elimination reaction
An elimination reaction is a type of organic reaction in which two substituents are removed from a molecule in either a one- or two-step mechanism. The one-step mechanism is known as the E2 reaction, and the two-step mechanism is known as the E1 r ...
, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
*Bodily
waste
Waste are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor Value (economics), economic value. A wast ...
elimination, discharging
feces
Feces (also known as faeces American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, or fæces; : faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the ...
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urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and many other animals. In placental mammals, urine flows from the Kidney (vertebrates), kidneys through the ureters to the urinary bladder and exits the urethra through the penile meatus (mal ...
, or foreign substances from the body via
defecation
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion and is the necessary biological process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid metabolic waste, waste material known as feces (or faeces) from the digestive tract via the anus o ...
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urination
Urination is the release of urine from the bladder through the urethra in Placentalia, placental mammals, or through the cloaca in other vertebrates. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, v ...
, and
emesis
Vomiting (also known as emesis, puking and throwing up) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose.
Vomiting can be the result of ailments like food poisoning, gastroenteritis, pregna ...
*Drug elimination,
clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
*Elimination, the destruction of an
infectious disease
An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmis ...
in one region of the world as opposed to its
eradication from the entire world
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Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control
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Elimination (pharmacology)
In pharmacology, the elimination or excretion of a drug is understood to be any one of a number of processes by which a drug is eliminated (that is, cleared and excreted) from an organism either in an unaltered form (unbound molecules) or modi ...
, processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism
Logic and mathematics
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Elimination theory
In commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, elimination theory is the classical name for algorithmic approaches to eliminating some variables between polynomials of several variables, in order to solve systems of polynomial equations.
Classica ...
, the theory of the methods to eliminate variables between polynomial equations.
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Disjunctive syllogism
In classical logic, disjunctive syllogism (historically known as ''modus tollendo ponens'' (MTP), Latin for "mode that affirms by denying") is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its premises.
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, a rule of inference
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Gaussian elimination
In mathematics, Gaussian elimination, also known as row reduction, is an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations. It consists of a sequence of row-wise operations performed on the corresponding matrix of coefficients. This method can a ...
, a method of solving systems of linear equations
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Fourier–Motzkin elimination
Fourier–Motzkin elimination, also known as the FME method, is a mathematical algorithm for eliminating variables from a system of linear inequalities. It can output real solutions.
The algorithm is named after Joseph Fourier who proposed the ...
, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalities
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Process of elimination, enumerating all answers and discarding each unfit answer
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Variable elimination
Variable elimination (VE) is a simple and general exact inference algorithm in probabilistic graphical models, such as Bayesian networks and Markov random fields.Zhang, N.L., Poole, D.:A Simple Approach to Bayesian Network Computations.In: 7th C ...
Games and competitions
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Elimination tournament
A tournament is a competition involving at least three competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:
# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...
, a knock-out style of tournament competition
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''Elimination'' (arcade game), 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games
*Elimination, a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game
Assassin
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives.
Assassinations are orde ...
, played with clothes-pins
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Elimination from postseason contention in a sports league
Music
*''Elimination'', a 2002 album by
Deceptikonz
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''Elimination'' (Jughead's Revenge album), 1994
*"Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album ''
The Years of Decay''
Accounting
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Elimination (accounting), the act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions
See also
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Eliminator (disambiguation)
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