Elimination

·noun The act of expelling or throwing off.

II. Elimination ·noun The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.].

III. Elimination ·noun the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

IV. Elimination ·noun 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.