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ELIMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The murder of a competitor
Synonyms:
elimination; liquidation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
Derivation:
eliminate (terminate, end, or take out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of removing or getting rid of something
Synonyms:
elimination; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elimination"):
simplification (elimination of superfluous details)
Derivation:
eliminate (terminate, end, or take out)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):
remotion; removal (the act of removing)
Derivation:
eliminate (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
Synonyms:
elimination; reasoning by elimination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):
analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The bodily process of discharging waste matter
Synonyms:
elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("elimination" is a kind of...):
discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elimination"):
defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)
incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)
micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)
Derivation:
eliminate (eliminate from the body)
Context examples:
Ethanol Metabolism consists of various biochemical detoxification reactions that convert ethanol to metabolic derivatives for elimination from the body.
(Ethanol Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus)
Natural or synthetic compounds usually administered orally, Antiflatulent Agents relieve or prevent flatulence, excess gas in the stomach and intestines, by adsorbing the gas, stimulating intestinal elimination of gas, or preventing gas formation.
(Antiflatulent Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
The induction of detoxification enzymes enhances the detoxification of certain cancer-causing agents, thereby enhancing their elimination and preventing carcinogen-induced DNA damages.
(Oltipraz, NCI Thesaurus)
The characteristic movements of drugs within biological systems, as affected by absorption, distribution, binding, elimination, biotransformation, and excretion; particularly the rates of such movements.
(Pharmacokinetics, NCI Thesaurus)
Studies showed, however, that food elimination doesn’t prevent the development of food allergies.
(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)
Through analysis of the genomes, researchers now better understand where the organism lives and how it avoids elimination by its hosts’ immune system.
(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)
This process of elimination led them to a gene that codes for a neuropeptide hormone they named FLP-7.
(Scientists Find Brain Hormone That Triggers Fat Burning, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Anti-gout agents may reduce inflammation, stimulate elimination of uric acid, or increase production of uric acid.
(Anti-gout Preparation, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent is eliminated in an unchanged form via the kidneys; extra-renal elimination is negligible.
(Gadobutrol, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent may cause the opsonization and elimination of CD3-positive T cells from the circulation by mononuclear phagocytes in the liver and spleen.
(muromonab-CD3, NCI Thesaurus)
