eliminand

eliminand (plural eliminands)

1. That which is eliminated, e.g. from a mathematical formula.
   • 2016, Erwan Penchèvre, “Justifying the ways of Etienne Bézout”, in arXiv‎:

     In this text, he does not only demonstrate the theorem for n>2 for generic equations, but he also builds a classification of equations that allows a better bound on the degree of the eliminand when the equations are not generic.

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