Elimination

1. n. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
2. n. The act of expelling or throwing off
3. n. the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
4. n. Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.