elijah
- n a Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols; he was persecuted for rebuking Ahab and Jezebel (king and queen of Israel); he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (circa 9th century BC)
elijah muhammad
- n leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)
elimination
- n the act of removing or getting rid of something
- n the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- n analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- n the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- n the murder of a competitor
elimination reaction
- n a chemical reaction in which a molecule decomposes to two different molecules
elimination tournament
- n a tournament in which losers are eliminated in successive rounds