Elimination /(?)/

E·lim·i·na·tion

Elimination

n.
  1. The act of expelling or throwing off (Physiol.)
  2. 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. (Alg.)
  3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]