Rejection 1038620 225783642 2008-07-15T11:23:40Z Philip Trueman 3150196 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 {{Wiktionarypar|rejection}} 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'' {{disambig}} [[de:Ablehnung]] [[fr:Rejet]]