Elimination
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Elimination may refer to:
Science and medicine
[edit]- Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
- Bodily waste elimination, discharging feces, urine, or foreign substances from the body via defecation, urination, and emesis
- Drug elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
- Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world
- Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control
- Elimination (pharmacology), processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism
Logic and mathematics
[edit]- Elimination theory, the theory of the methods to eliminate variables between polynomial equations.
- Disjunctive syllogism, a rule of inference
- Gaussian elimination, a method of solving systems of linear equations
- Fourier–Motzkin elimination, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalities
- Process of elimination, enumerating all answers and discarding each unfit answer
- Variable elimination
Games and competitions
[edit]- Elimination tournament, a knock-out style of tournament competition
- Elimination (arcade game), 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games
- Elimination, a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothes-pins
- Elimination from postseason contention in a sports league
Music
[edit]- Elimination, a 2002 album by Deceptikonz
- Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album), 1994
- "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay
Accounting
[edit]- Elimination (accounting), the act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions