- Elimination
Elimination can refer to several things:
*When referencing the word in aReality TV show, it means to vote one off, also known as voting off, consisting of they are out of the game or contest.
*Inchemistry , anelimination reaction is a one- or two-step organic reaction in which two functional groups combine to form a larger organic product with a new bond such as anester ,amide , orether . There is also a small product; e.g.,water or anacid .
*Inpharmacology , elimination (or clearance) refers to all the processes that remove a drug or other foreign agent from the body. These includeexcretion andmetabolism .
*Inbiology elimination refers to the removal of undigested or unchanged materials from the body. It is different fromexcretion because excreted materials aremetabolic wastes and by-products.Cellulose ordietary fibre is an example of material that is eliminated but not excreted.
*Inepidemiology elimination refers to the destruction of aninfectious disease and its causal organism from a region of the world. It is used in contrast to eradication, which is the complete destruction of an infectious disease (or at least its wild form) from anywhere in the world.
*Inlogic , elimination refers to therule of inference known as thedisjunctive syllogism .
*Single elimination anddouble elimination are styles of tournament competition.
* Elimination! is a 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiaryKey Games .
*Elimination is a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothes-pins.
*Eliminator isZZ Top 's 8th studio album, released in1983 .
*Elimination isJughead's Revenge 's 3rd studio album, released in1994 .
*Elimination is the second song from Overkill's albumThe Years of Decay
*Elimination is a trash metal band from Ipswich, United Kingdom.
* In mathematics, eliminating a variable from a system of relations means obtaining a system of the same kind that has the same solutions over the remaining variables. Depending on the kind of system, various elimination techniques exist:
**Gaussian elimination is a matrix operation, that produces "reduced row echelon form", with steps of elimination over linear equalities;
**Fourier-Motzkin elimination forsystems of linear inequalities .
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