Rejection
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Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/81.105.171.198|81.105.171.198]] ([[User talk:81.105.171.198|talk]]) to last version by Xyzzyplugh
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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:
* [[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 (basketball)|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 (animal)|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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