Exclusion

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  • noun. The act or practice of excluding.
  • noun. The condition or fact of being excluded.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of excluding or shutting out; a debarring; non-admission.
  • noun. Non-inclusion or non-reception; exception.
  • noun. In logic, the relation of two terms each of which is totally denied of the other. Thus, animal and plant stand to each other in a relation of exclusion, provided it is true that no animal is a plant.
  • noun. The act of thrusting out or expelling; ejection; extrusion.
  • noun. That which is emitted or thrown out; excretion.
  • noun. A method in the theory of numbers invented by Frenicle de Bessy, and now forgotten.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.
  • noun. The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.
  • noun. Thing emitted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a deliberate act of omission
  • noun. the state of being excommunicated
  • noun. the state of being excluded
  • noun. the act of forcing out someone or something
  • Word Usage
    "Note 84: Pat McCarthy, a registered nurse and a certified schoolteacher, recalls her exclusion from the midwifery crew and from teaching at The Farm school with some resentment."
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