noun the act of expelling or throwing off.
2. elimination ·noun the act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [see eliminate, 4.].
3. elimination ·noun the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
4. elimination ·noun 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.