elimination

noun

1. 1.The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. 2.The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
3. 3.The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. 4.The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. 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.