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# elimination

«elimination» in Mova's school dictionary: **Removing or getting rid of something completely** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (elimination, uncountable; an elimination)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Removing or getting rid of something completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#m1)

2) (sport, games, shows) Being knocked out of a competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#m2)

3) (maths, logic) Solving a problem by ruling out wrong answers one by one (process of elimination). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and logic puzzles you use the process of elimination; in sport and TV shows, rounds have eliminations; in health and science, the body gets rid of waste; phrases: «process of elimination», «elimination round», «the elimination of disease».

### examples

- By a process of elimination, we found who took the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x1)
- Our team lost in the elimination round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x2)
- The elimination of smallpox was a great success for science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x3)
- The quiz had a different elimination each week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x4)
- Cross off wrong answers: that is elimination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x5)
- The elimination of plastic straws helps the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/#x6)

### note

From eliminate. In maths: if three options are wrong, elimination tells you the fourth is right. In algebra, the «elimination method» removes a variable from equations.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elimination» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elimination/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.