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 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, 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 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 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, 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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