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Noun elimination has 5 senses
- elimination, riddance - the act of removing or getting rid of something
--1 is a kind of removal, remotion
--1 has particulars: simplification
- elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding - the bodily process of discharging waste matter
--2 is a kind of discharge, emission, expelling
--2 has particulars:
- elimination, reasoning by elimination - analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives
--3 is a kind of analysis, analytic thinking
- elimination - the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
--4 is a kind of removal, remotion
- elimination, liquidation - the murder of a competitor
--5 is a kind of murder, slaying, execution
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