Elimination may refer to:
Science and medicine
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Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
*Bodily
waste
Waste (or wastes) 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 economic value. A waste prod ...
elimination, discharging
feces
Feces ( or faeces), known colloquially and in slang as poo and poop, 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 large intestine. Feces contain a relati ...
,
urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters to the urinary bladder. Urination results in urine being excretion, excreted from the body through the urethra.
Cel ...
, or foreign substances from the body via
defecation
Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus. The act has a variety of names ranging f ...
,
urination, and
emesis
*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 tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...
in one region of the world as opposed to its
eradication from the entire world
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Hazard elimination
Hazard elimination is a hazard control strategy based on completely removing a material or process causing a hazard. Elimination is the most effective of the five members of the hierarchy of hazard controls in protecting workers, and where possi ...
, 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 modified ...
, processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism
Logic and mathematics
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Elimination theory, 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 premise ...
, 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 operations performed on the corresponding matrix of coefficients. This method can also be used ...
, 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 me ...
, 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
Games and competitions
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Elimination tournament, 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, 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)
In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, ''consolidation'' refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a ...
, 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)
Eliminator may refer to:
People and characters
*The Eliminators (band), a band which covered "The Saint (Edwin Astley song), The Saint" from ''Surfbeat Behind the Iron Curtain, Volume 1''
*The Eliminators, a professional wrestling tag team that c ...
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