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, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
  • In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a block
  • In mathematics, the 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
  • Rejection of Jesus, described in the New Testament

Art, media and entertainment

  • "Reject", a song by Green Day from Nimrod
  • "Reject", a song by Living Sacrifice from Reborn, 1997
  • "Reject", a song by Moby from Animal Rights, 1996
  • "Rejection", a song by AC/DC from Power Up
  • "Rejection" (song), a song by Martin Solveig
  • The Rejection, an EP by Dangerous Muse
  • Rejection (film), a 2011 Ukrainian film
  • Rejection, a 2009 film with Gary Farmer
  • Rejection (short story collection), a book by Tony Tulathimutte
  • Reject (esports), a Japanese esports organization

See also

  • Accept (disambiguation), the opposite of rejection
  • Aversion (disambiguation)
  • Rejectionism (disambiguation)
  • Repulsion (disambiguation)