different between elimination vs thwarting

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

elimination (countable and uncountable, plural eliminations)

1. The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
2. The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
3. (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
4. (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
5. (mathematics) 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.
6. (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
7. (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Related terms

• eliminable
• eliminant
• eliminate
• eliminative
• eliminator
• eliminatory

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English

Verb

thwarting

1. present participle of thwart

Noun

thwarting (plural thwartings)

1. An instance of blocking or obstructing.

   • […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.