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terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics" obviate: do away with kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" rule out: 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" excrete: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
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| elimination |
the act of removing or getting rid of something the bodily process of discharging waste matter analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations the murder of a competitor
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| Elizabeth |
daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-); "Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great Britain" Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
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| ELISA |
enzyme-linked-immunosorbent serologic assay: 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)
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| elixir |
a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste philosopher's stone: a hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold a substance believed to cure all ills
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