Elimination

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Elimination can refer to several things:

• In chemistry, an elimination reaction is a one- or two-step organic reaction in which two functional groups combine to form a larger organic product with a new bond such as an ester, amide, or ether. There is also a small product; e.g., water or an acid.

• In pharmacology, elimination (or clearance) refers to all the processes that remove a drug or other foreign agent from the body. These include excretion and metabolism.

• Single elimination and double elimination are styles of tournament competition.

• Gaussian elimination is a matrix operation, that produces "reduced row echelon form."

• Elimination is a variant of the "lifestyle-invading" game Assassin, played with clothespins.

• Eliminator is ZZ Top's 8th studio album, released in 1983.

• Elimination is Jughead's Revenge's 3rd studio album, released in 1994.