\E*lim`i*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]limination.]
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.]