Definitions for eliminations

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eliminations e·lim·i·na·tion

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

IPA: /ɪˌlɪm əˈneɪ ʃən/

Eliminations is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1277 anagrams from letters in eliminations (aeiiilmnnost).

Definitions for eliminations

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 eliminations

First recorded in 1595-1605; eliminate + -ion

Examples for eliminations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science has done wonders toward the elimination of such fears.

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

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?