E-lim'i-nā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. élimination.]

1. The act of expelling or throwing off; the act of discharging or secreting by the pores; as, the elimination of errors, or of humors.
2. (Alg.) The causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction; as, the elimination of truth, or of a principle.