REASONING BY ELIMINATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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 ("reasoning by 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)

Credits