Term: reductionism: a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components
Candidate hypernym: theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena → 1
Candidate hypernym: pillow sham: bed linen consisting of a decorative cover for a pillow → 0
Candidate hypernym: microphotometer: special kind of densitometer that measures density variations over a very small area → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil pressure: pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine → 0
Candidate hypernym: ram disk: (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors → 0
Candidate hypernym: great bustard: largest European land bird → 0
Candidate hypernym: lamellicorn beetle: beetle having antennae with hard platelike terminal segments → 0
Candidate hypernym: friend: a person you know well and regard with affection and trust → 0
Candidate hypernym: enjambment: the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause → 0
Candidate hypernym: sum: a quantity of money → 0
Candidate hypernym: tracked vehicle: a self-propelled vehicle that moves on tracks → 0