eliminate
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～ eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
eliminate
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～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
eliminate
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～ remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
eliminate
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～ dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
eliminate
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～ remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
elimination
— Noun
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～ the murder of a competitor
elimination
— Noun
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～ the act of removing or getting rid of something
elimination
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～ the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
elimination
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～ the bodily process of discharging waste matter
elimination
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～ analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
eliminator
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～ an agent that eliminates something
ELINT
— Noun
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～ intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources)
Elinvar
— Noun
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～ Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures
Eliot
— Noun
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～ British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)
Eliot
— Noun
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～ British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
ELISA
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～ an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria)
Elisabethville
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～ a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville
elision
— Noun
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～ a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
elision
— Noun
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～ omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)