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Obviation vs Elimination - What's the difference?

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Obviation is a related term of elimination.


As nouns the difference between obviation and elimination

is that obviation is the act of obviating; deterrence or prevention while elimination is elimination.

obviation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of obviating; deterrence or prevention.
  • Synonyms

    * deterrence, prevention

    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)
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