process of elimination

Noun

Meaning

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process of elimination (plural processes of elimination)

A logical method to identify an entity of interest among several ones by excluding all other entities.

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Examples

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. Elbert Hubbard

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination. Vanna Bonta

The object of this process of elimination is. J. R. Partington

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. Jonathan Carroll

Close letter words and terms

process of disembodying process of editing process of eliminating colonialism process of generating ideas process of getting better process of going to court