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. This is the opposite of social acceptance


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


 * Electronic selectivity, in telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
 * 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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