abscissio infiniti

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin abscissio infiniti (“abscission of that which is infinite”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɪ.siˌoʊ ɪn.fəˈni.ti/

Noun[edit]

abscissio infiniti (plural abscissiones infiniti)

  1. A logical process of elimination by eliminating successively all of the inapplicable cases.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 6
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