elimination vs removal

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. 

removal

noun
  • The process of removing, or the fact of being removed. 

  • The relocation of a business etc. 

  • Murder. 

  • An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers are said before and after the journey, after which mourners are typically received at the home of the deceased. 

  • The dismissal of someone from office. 

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