Elimination

Elimination may refer to:

Science and medicine

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

Logic and mathematics

• Elimination, the rule of inference known as the disjunctive syllogism
• 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 (disambiguation), 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 (Deceptikonz album), 2002
• Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album), 1994
• "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay
• Elimination, a British Heavy Metal band, based in Ipswich/Colchester.

Accounting

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

See also

• Eliminator (disambiguation)