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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elimination \E*lim`i*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]limination.]
The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
(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.
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a casting out," noun of action from eliminate. Meaning "expulsion of waste matter" is from 1855.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. 2 The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. 3 (context television English) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. 4 (context biology English) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctory. 5 (context mathematics English) The 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. 6 (context logic English) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. 7 (context accounting English) The act of recording amounts in a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidation%20(business)%233.%20More%20than%2050%25%20ownership%20%E2%80%94%20Subsidiary to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
WordNet
n. the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: riddance]
the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding]
analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives [syn: reasoning by elimination]
the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
the murder of a competitor [syn: liquidation]
Wikipedia
Elimination may refer to:
Elimination is the debut album of New Zealand hip-hop group, the Deceptikonz released in 2002.
Elimination is a four-player version of Pong by Atari Inc. subsidiary Kee Games, and designed by Steve Bristow. It was later released as Quadrapong under the Atari label.
Elimination is Jughead's Revenge's third studio album, released in 1994. It was the first of the band's catalog to be licensed to and distributed by BYO Records. Although Elimination was not commercially successful, Jughead's Revenge gained critical recognition for the album and supported Face to Face on their first Canadian tour.
Elimination marked the first Jughead's Revenge album to be recorded as a four-piece; second guitarist George Snow had left the band in 1993 to play in the Bad Samaritans full-time. It was also their last album to feature drummer Nenus Givargus, who left for family related business.
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 from an organism either in an unaltered form (unbound molecules) or modified as a metabolite. The kidney is the main excretory organ although others exist such as the liver, the skin, the lungs or glandular structures, such as the salivary glands and the lacrimal glands. These organs or structures use specific routes to expel a drug from the body, these are termed elimination pathways:
- Urine,
- Tears,
- Perspiration
- Saliva
- Respiration
- Milk
- Faeces
- Bile
Drugs are excreted from the kidney by glomerular filtration and by active tubular secretion following the same steps and mechanisms as the products of intermediate metabolism. Therefore, drugs that are filtered by the glomerulus are also subject to the process of passive tubular reabsorption. Glomerular filtration will only remove those drugs or metabolites that are not bound to proteins present in blood plasma (free fraction) and many other types of drugs (such as the organic acids) are actively secreted. In the proximal and distal convoluted tubules non-ionised acids and weak bases are reabsorbed both actively and passively. Weak acids are excreted when the tubular fluid becomes too alkaline and this reduces passive reabsorption. The opposite occurs with weak bases. Poisoning treatments use this effect to increase elimination, by alkalizing the urine causing forced diuresis which promotes excretion of a weak acid, rather than it getting reabsorbed. As the acid is ionised, it cannot pass through the plasma membrane back into the blood stream and instead gets excreted with the urine. Acidifying the urine has the same effect for weakly basic drugs.
On other occasions drugs combined with bile juices and enter the intestines. In the intestines the drug will join with the unabsorbed fraction of the administered dose and be eliminated with the faeces or it may undergo a new process of absorption to eventually be eliminated by the kidney.
The other elimination pathways are less important in the elimination of drugs, except in very specific cases, such as the respiratory tract for alcohol or anaesthetic gases. The case of mother's milk is of special importance. The liver and kidneys of newly born infants are relatively undeveloped and they are highly sensitive to a drug’s toxic effects. For this reason it is important to know if a drug is likely to be eliminated from a woman’s body if she is breast feeding in order to avoid this situation.
Usage examples of "elimination".
Standard procedures calls for elimination of airborne enemy patrol to prevent relay of cyborg unit location or other data.
Recently, the NRF has lobbied for the elimination of the estate tax, for bankruptcy reform, for free trade with China, against new ergonomics standards for the workplace, and against increases in the minimum wage.
As Chatterton heard it, tri mix offered a fantasyland of advantages over breathing air in deep water: widened peripheral vision sharpened motor skills and coordination longer bottom times shorter decompression times reduced risk of oxygen toxicity and deep-water blackout elimination of narcosis Chatterton believed that any one of these benefits could revolutionize wreck diving in the Northeast.
Langton campaign can be reduced to three - elimination of Lady Rosnay, elimination of Osmond, elimination of me.
Harley for Osmond - the various attempts to make scandal of his affair with Alix - the elimination of the other rival, Molly Marne.
The GOP rescissions included the elimination of 15,000 AmeriCorps positions, 1.
If becoming a Christian means the elimination of all virility from the character, the substitution of soft soap and sawder for strength and diligence, religion cannot be regarded as a help in business.
Distinctions, rightly awarded, are an aid, not a hindrance to sexual selection, and effort should be directed, from the eugenic point of view, no less to the proper recognition of true superiority than to the elimination of unjustified differentiations of reputability.
The elimination of carbonic acid through the lungs has already been described on page 66, and the excretory function of the skin on page 70.
The elimination of the beavers and over-grazing, especially of the riparian habitats, altered the hydrology of the continent.
The two dozen embryos arrayed upon the counter, each one no more than a few millimeters long and each suspended in a sterile dish containing an artificial growth medium of her own invention, were the end of a long and meticulous process of elimination and experimentation, expressly designed to create human embryos genetically superior to those created through the random genetic shuffling of ordinary reproduction.
What ensues is a well documented account of the elimination of sectarianism from the American school system which is reinterpreted as a fight for the secularization of public supported education.
The only games scheduled are in celebration of Libernalia, and Sertes is planning an elimination match.
The elimination of noise, Soli said, was the real problem in transmitting information.
Rather than testifying to the reality and existence of God and a superterrestrial world, it will mark their final elimination from human consciousness.