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Rejection
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The word "rejection" was first used in 1415. The original meaning was "to throw" or "to throw back".
Rejection may mean:
- In psychology, social rejection is an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual from a social relationship. This may lead to an emotional state of rejection.
- In medicine, transplant rejection usually refers to 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.
- In manufacturing and technology, rejected components are ones that do not meet standards because they are faulty, broken or do not work in some way.
- In mathematics, rejection sampling is a technique used to generate observations from a distribution.
Rejection may also refer to:
- a song by Martin Solveig
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