v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eliminated p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating ] [ L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit. ] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eliminate my spirit, give it range
Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [ Recent, and not well authorized ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. élimination. ] 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alg.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [ See Eliminate, 4. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. [ 1913 Webster ]