3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating.
Lowth. 4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
[Recent, and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs
carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Elimination
(E*lim`i*na"tion) n. [Cf. F. élimination.]
1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or
foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2. (Alg.) 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.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
