Elimination

Elimination may refer to:

Science and medicine

 * Elimination reaction, an organic reaction in which two functional groups split to form an organic product
 * Bodily waste elimination, discharging feces, urine, or foreign substances from the body via defecation, urination, and emesis
 * Drug elimination, clearance of a drug or other foreign agent from the body
 * Elimination, the destruction of an infectious disease in one region of the world as opposed to its eradication from the entire world
 * Hazard elimination, the most effective type of hazard control
 * Elimination (pharmacology), processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism

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

Music

 * Elimination, a 2002 album by Deceptikonz
 * Elimination (Jughead's Revenge album), 1994
 * "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