What does "elimination" mean?
Elimination: (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.
Additional senses
- 2.The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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