Rejection
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The word "rejection" was first used in the year of 1415. It was used to "throw" or "throw back." Today it is used to discard or scrap. It is similar to throwing something out.[citation needed]
Rejection may mean:
- In psychology, rejection is an emotion felt by most humans (and possibly other higher animals) when another person denies a personal request, particularly if it is an emotional advance. Repeated rejection (particularly of children) or fear of it, can lead to loneliness and depression.
- 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 and Adjacent-channel rejection.
- 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.
