elimination
elimination is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(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.
- 2.The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- any
- apart
- aside
- banish
- bar
- bating
- between
- blackball
- cofferdam
- cull
- decimate
- decimation
- diminish
- disjoin
- eliminate
- eradication
- except
- exception
- exclude
- exclusion
- exclusive
- exiguity
- exiguous
- exile
- expulsion
- far
- few
- fewness
- from
- garble
- handful
- hardly
- here
- inadmissible
- included
- infrequency
- infrequent
- lay
- leave
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
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Definition-first questions whose answer is elimination.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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