Elimination

Elimination may refer to:

Science and medicine

• Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
• Bodily waste elimination, discharging feces, urine, or foreign substances from the body via defecation, urination, and emesis
• Drug elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
• Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world
• Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control

Logic and mathematics

• Elimination theory, the theory of the methods to eliminate variables between polynomial equations.
• Disjunctive syllogism, a rule of inference
• Gaussian elimination, a method of solving systems of linear equations
• Fourier–Motzkin elimination, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalitiesand any thing

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
• Elimination from possibility of reaching postseason in a sports league

Music

• Elimination, a 2002 album by Deceptikonz
• Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album), 1994
• "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay

Accounting

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

See also

• Eliminator (disambiguation)