Phonetic Breakdown of "elimination"
Learn how to break down "elimination" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
elim-i-na-tion
4 syllables
IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
IH0 L IH2 M AH0 N EY1 SH AH0 N
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Definition of "elimination"
Noun
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The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
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The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
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The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
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The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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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.
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The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
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The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.