Definition of Elimination
Elimination
The act of expelling or throwing off
the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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 act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
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Elimination Quotations
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Theodor Adorno
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
Hu Shih
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Stanislav Grof
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.
Bobby Scott
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat
With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.
Doc Hastings
Elimination Translations
elimination in French is aplanissement
elimination in German is Beseitigung, Sperr
elimination in Italian is eliminazione
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