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Webster 1913 Edition
Elimination
E-limˊi-na′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
élimination
.] 1.
The act of expelling or throwing off
; (Physiol.)
the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2.
(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.
3.
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See
Eliminate
, 4.] Webster 1828 Edition
Elimination
ELIMINA'TION
,Noun.