NOUN | act | elimination, riddance | the act of removing or getting rid of something |
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process | elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding | the bodily process of discharging waste matter | |
cognition | elimination, reasoning by elimination | analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | |
act | elimination | the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | |
act | elimination, liquidation | the murder of a competitor |
Sounds | ihlih.mahney'shahn | |
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Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... |
Meaning | The act of removing or getting rid of something. | |
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Synonym | riddance | |
Narrower | simplification | elimination of superfluous details |
Broader | removal, remotion | The act of removing |
Spanish | liberación | |
Catalan | alliberació, alliberament | |
Verbs | eliminate | terminate, end, or take out |
Meaning | The bodily process of discharging waste matter. | |
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Synonyms | evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding | |
Narrower | defecation, laxation, shitting | The elimination of fecal waste through the anus |
incontinence, incontinency | involuntary urination or defecation | |
micturition, urination | The discharge of urine | |
Broader | discharge, emission, expelling | Any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body |
Spanish | defecación, deposición, deyección, evacuación, excreción | |
Catalan | defecació, dejecció, deposició, ejecció, evacuació, excreció | |
Verbs | eliminate | eliminate from the body |
Meaning | Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives. | |
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Synonym | reasoning by elimination | |
Broader | analysis, analytic thinking | The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations |
Spanish | eliminación, razonamiento por eliminación | |
Catalan | eliminació |
Meaning | The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations. | |
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Broader | removal, remotion | The act of removing |
Catalan | eliminació | |
Verbs | eliminate | remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations |
Meaning | The murder of a competitor. | |
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Synonym | liquidation | |
Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
Spanish | eliminación, liquidación | |
Catalan | liquidació | |
Verbs | eliminate | terminate, end, or take out |
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