eliminasi

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch eliminatie, from French élimination.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.li.mi.ˈna.si/
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: e‧li‧mi‧na‧si

Noun

eliminasi (plural eliminasi-eliminasi, first-person possessive eliminasiku, second-person possessive eliminasimu, third-person possessive eliminasinya)

1. elimination:
   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. (physiology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
   4. (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.

Alternative forms

• eliminir

Synonyms

• pengasingan
• pengeluaran
• penghilangan
• penyingkiran
• penyisihan

 

Derived terms

• dieliminasi
• dieliminir
• mengeliminasi
• mengeliminir
• pengeliminasi
• tereliminasi
• tereliminir

 

Further reading

• “eliminasi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.