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Alleviation vs Elimination - What's the difference?

alleviation | elimination |

As nouns the difference between alleviation and elimination

is that alleviation is the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation while elimination is elimination.

alleviation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation
  • the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

    • elimination

    English

    Noun

  • The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
  • The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
  • (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
  • (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
  • (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.
  • (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
  • (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions. FindMyBestCPA.com - Consolidated Statements (Interco eliminations)

    • Related terms

    * eliminable * eliminant * eliminate * eliminative * eliminator * eliminatory

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