Elimination

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)

2. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

3. 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.

4. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,