elimination

noun7

1. •
   The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. •
   The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

   • Everton require at least 3 goals in the second leg to avoid elimination from the FA Cup.
3. •
   The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. •
   The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. •
   The 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.
6. •
   The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
7. •
   The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.