Editing Rejection (section)

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'''Rejection''', or the verb '''reject''', may refer to:

* [[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, [[Selectivity (radio)|rejection]] is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
* In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a [[block (basketball)|block]]
* In mathematics, the [[Vector rejection|rejection]] of a vector '''a''' from a vector '''b''' is the component of '''a''' perpendicular to '''b''', as opposed to its projection, which is parallel to '''b'''.
* In statistics, rejection of a null hypothesis in favour of an alternative hypothesis when doing a [[hypothesis test]].
* In statistics, [[rejection sampling]] is a technique used to generate observations from a distribution
* In zoology, the shunning of one or more animals in a [[litter (animal)|litter]]
* [[Rejection of Jesus]], described in the New Testament