Definitions for elimination

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elimination e·lim·i·na·tion

Spelling: [ih-lim-uh-ney-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪˌlɪm əˈneɪ ʃən/

Elimination is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 609 anagrams from letters in elimination (aeiiilmnnot).

Definitions for elimination

noun

1. the act of eliminating.
2. the state of being eliminated.
3. Mathematics. the process of solving a system of simultaneous equations by using various techniques to remove the variables successively.
4. Sports. a game, bout, or match in a tournament in which an individual or team is eliminated from the competition after one defeat.

Origin of elimination

First recorded in 1595-1605; eliminate + -ion

Examples for elimination

elimination, of dangers of surface pollution, 140;of mosquitoes, 381.

First, it turned its hand to the elimination of organized resistance within Germany itself.

You can devote yourself to the elimination of ugliness, to the increase of beauty.

By such process of elimination he arrived at the final question: was it she?

These decreases have come out of the elimination of speculation and profiteering.

Early definitions of rape seem to have been a lot about process of elimination.

Part of that was due to the elimination of the Mysterious Man.

There is sentiment against corporate welfare, and this is a ‘doable’ target [for elimination].

The only thing missing from this bill of particulars was elimination of the bourgeoisie.

Science has done wonders toward the elimination of such fears.