rejection

1 the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"

2 the state of being rejected [ant: acceptance]

3 (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"

4 the speech act of rejecting

English

Noun

1. The act of rejecting.
2. The state of being rejected.

Translations

Derived terms

• rejection letter

The word "rejection" was first used in 1415. The original meaning was "to throw" or "to throw back".

Rejection may mean:

• Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual from a social relationship

• Transplant rejection, in medicine, the immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in a transplantation

• In telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one. See Electronic selectivity

• In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a block

• Rejection sampling, in mathematics, a technique used to generate observations from a distribution

• In zoology, the shunning of one or more animals in a litter

Rejection may also refer to:

• A song by Martin Solveig
• Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town in the Tremors film and T.V. series, originally named Rejection

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