elimination vs suppression

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. 

suppression

noun
  • The act or instance of suppressing. 

  • A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories. 

  • The state of being suppressed. 

  • The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. 

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