Elimination

Elimination may refer to:

Science and medicine

• In chemistry

• Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product

• In pharmacology

• Elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body

• In epidemiology

• Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world

Logic and mathematics

• In logic

• Elimination, the rule of inference known as the disjunctive syllogism

• In mathematics

• Elimination, with steps of elimination over linear equalities, using the Gaussian elimination algorithm
• Elimination, for systems of linear inequalities, using the Fourier-Motzkin elimination algorithm

Games and competitions

• Elimination tournament, a knock-out style of tournament competition
• Elimination (arcade game), 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games
• Elimination, a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothes-pins

Music

• Elimination, a Thrash Metal band from Colchester, Essex
• Elimination, a 1994 album by Jughead's Revenge
• "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay

Accounting

• Elimination (Accounting), The act of recording amounts in a consolildation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

See also

• Eliminator (disambiguation)