Elimination

Elimination may refer to:

Science and medicine

• Elimination (pharmacology), processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism
• Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
• Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control
• Regional elimination of an infectious disease in one part of the world, as opposed to its eradication from the entire world

Logic and mathematics

• Elimination theory, the theory of the methods to eliminate variables between polynomial equations.
• Disjunctive syllogism, a rule of inference
• Gaussian elimination, a method of solving systems of linear equations
• Fourier–Motzkin elimination, an algorithm for reducing systems of linear inequalities
• Process of elimination, enumerating all answers and discarding each unfit answer
• Variable elimination

Games and competitions

• Elimination (arcade game), 1974 arcade game by Atari Inc. subsidiary Key Games
• Elimination from postseason contention in a sports league
• Elimination tournament, a knock-out style of tournament
• Elimination, a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothes-pins

Music

• Elimination (album), a 1994 album by Jughead's Revenge
• Elimination, a 2002 album by Deceptikonz
• "Elimination", a 1989 single from Overkill's album The Years of Decay

Accounting

• Elimination (accounting), the act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions

See also

• Eliminator (disambiguation)