confirmation vs elimination

confirmation

noun
  • An act whereby something conditional or voidable is made sure and unavoidable, especially the possession of an estate. 

  • An official indicator that things will happen as planned. 

  • A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches. 

  • A verification that something is true or has happened. 

elimination

noun
  • The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. 

  • The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. 

  • The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition. 

  • 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. 

  • The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. 

  • The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. 

  • The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. 

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