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EXCLUSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of forcing out someone or something
Example:
the child's expulsion from school
Synonyms:
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exclusion" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exclusion"):
defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)
deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)
ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)
barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)
ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)
Derivation:
exclude (put out or expel from a place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A deliberate act of omission
Example:
with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("exclusion" is a kind of...):
omission (neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something)
Derivation:
exclude (prevent from being included or considered or accepted)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being excluded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("exclusion" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exclusion"):
banishment; Coventry; ostracism (the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent))
debarment (the state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices))
Antonym:
inclusion (the state of being included)
Derivation:
exclude (prevent from entering; keep out)
exclude (prevent from entering; shut out)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of being excommunicated
Synonyms:
censure; exclusion; excommunication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("exclusion" is a kind of...):
rejection (the state of being rejected)
Context examples:
The intent of the domain model is to only collect those criteria that cause the subject to be in violation of the inclusion/exclusion criteria not a response to each criterion.
(Inclusion Exclusion Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to the violation of trial inclusion and exclusion criteria of a subject.
(Inclusion Exclusion Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
A character or string that represents the inclusion exclusion criterion assessment.
(Inclusion Exclusion Criterion Test, NCI Thesaurus)
A sequence of characters that represents the inclusion exclusion criterion test.
(Inclusion Exclusion Criterion Test Code, NCI Thesaurus)
Detection of these proteins may be used to aid in the diagnosis or exclusion of thrombotic events or determine if a patient is at risk for post-operative hemorrhage.
(Fibrin Monomer, NCI Thesaurus)
ITP is a diagnosis of exclusion and is heterogeneous in origin.
(Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, NCI Thesaurus)
How is he to be taken?—Here a process of exclusions may help us. By road, by rail, by water?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You see we have already arrived, by a process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an American.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you worked hard, at the exclusion of almost everything else—for that is what Saturn requires—and you were a solid team player, then reward will come in 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The act or process of concentrating, focusing the attention and mental energy on a single object to the exclusion of others.
(Attention Concentration, NCI Thesaurus)
