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elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The complete removal or destruction of something: the elimination of extreme poverty is a key objective a global commitment to the elimination of nuclear weapons...- The results indicate that tariff elimination would have little effect on orange production in Sao Paulo.
- The present district labour court system is fated to undergo a phasing out process and eventual total elimination.
- The cuts make job elimination less likely.
1.1The exclusion of someone or something from consideration or further participation: a 1-1 draw confirmed their elimination from the tournament [as modifier]: after the initial elimination rounds, 16 boys qualified for the final...- Later on in the week we'll give you the latest betting odds for the next X Factor elimination.
- This activity can also be played as an elimination game.
- The elimination final started on tenterhooks for both sides as the scoring was slow and the passages of play at times cumbersome.
2The expulsion of waste matter from the body: the treatment promotes the elimination of toxins...- Bile secretion also inhibits the production of cholesterol and speeds its elimination from your body.
- As well as aid the elimination process, specific cleansing herbs help to quickly break down the intestinal and mucoid matter, so they are removed from your system.
- The kidney eliminates bromide with an elimination half-life of 11-12 days.
3 Mathematics The removal of a variable from an equation, typically by substituting another which is shown by another equation to be equivalent: Bezout’s method of elimination...- Although the Jordan normal form is named after him, the Gauss Jordan pivoting elimination method for solving the matrix equation Ax = b is not.
- This work contained the first known method of elimination and Fermat wanted it published.
- His most important contributions were methods of elimination to produce from a set of simultaneous equations, a single resultant equation in one of the unknowns.
4 Chemistry The generation of a simple substance as a product in the course of a reaction involving larger molecules: a condensation reaction can link together two monosaccharide sugars to form a disaccharide with the elimination of water...- The deleterious effects of the free radicals are kept under check by a delicate balance between the rate of their production and elimination by the different antioxidant systems.
- Several kinds of mutation may stabilize a protein, among them there is elimination of free sulfhydryl groups.
- Ciprofloxacin treatment is considered as a safe and effective method for elimination of cell culture mycoplasmas.
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