elimination

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While the final decision will not be made until Friday, the university committee created after the elimination was approved last July appears to be recommending that the board not to eliminate the tuition plateau just yet, a university administrator said.

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  1. A thrusting out; the act of removing, throwing aside, or disregarding; expulsion; riddance. The preparatory step of the discussion was, therefore, an elimination of those less precise and appropriate significations which, as they would at best only afford a remote genus and difference, were wholly incompetent for the purpose of a definition. Sir W. Hamilton. By means of researches on different coloured light it is now ascertained that those rays which cause the liveliest elimination of oxygen belong to the less refrangible half of the spectrum. Lommel, Light (trans.), p. 196.
  2. In law, the act of banishing or turning out of doors; ejection.
  3. In mathematics, the process of reducing a number of equations containing certain quantities to a smaller number, in which one or more of the quantities shall not be found.
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  • Clinical improvement of infection is defined as the elimination of at least two of the five IDSA symptomatic visual indications. —  BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories
  • Unfortunately, the elimination is a pretty sad process, and elimination of poison requires an extra step (the liver), so your body in its rush to get rid of the liquid poison is actually getting rid of the WATER part first. —  Blog updates
  • If a team wins the first game and thus avoids elimination, the playoffs become double-elimination through the end of the Area Tournament.
  • In Washington County, two routes originally up for elimination -- —  Today in Oregon: The Oregonian
  • In addition to MacIntyre's elimination, the results show also featured a group performance from the Top 8 of "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue - which was released in —  Reality TV World: Reality TV News
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  1. = French élimination = Spanish eliminacion = Portuguese eliminação = Italian eliminazione, from Latin as if *eliminatio(n-), from eliminare, thrust out of doors: see eliminate.
 

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