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 (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 pr ...
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 rela ...
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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 excreted from the body through the urethra.
Cellular ...
, 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 ...
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urination
Urination, also known as micturition, is the release of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. It is the urinary system's form of excretion. It is also known medically as micturition, voiding, ure ...
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emesis
Vomiting (also known as emesis and throwing up) is the involuntary, 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, gastroenteri ...
*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 d ...
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 modifie ...
, 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, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalities
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Process of elimination
Process of elimination is a logical method to identify an entity of interest among several ones by excluding all other entities. In educational testing, it is a process of deleting options whereby the possibility of an option being correct is clo ...
, enumerating all answers and discarding each unfit answer
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Variable elimination
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 murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have ...
, 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)
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