reduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reductiō, reductiōnem. Equivalent to reduce + -tion.
Base: reduce
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: reductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, process, or result of reducing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.
gloss: The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A 5% reduction in robberies
gloss: A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial-time reduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment, usually with a closed approach but sometimes with an open approach (surgery).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: closed reduction
open reduction and internal fixation
gloss: A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The final stage of thickness reduction (typically 90% from about 2mm to <0.2mm) is carried out by cold rolling.
gloss: A religious settlement created during a mission by Spanish or Portuguese colonists with the intent of evangelizing Christianity to the local population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Spanish reductions in Mexico were common during the 18th century.
Synonyms: lessening
Antonyms: elevation
expansion
increase
promotion
addition
supplement
oxidation
Related words: reducible
Derived words: amnioreduction
autoreduction
beta reduction
bioreduction
Birch reduction
boob reduction
breast reduction
carboreduction
carbothermal reduction
chemoreduction
Clemmensen reduction
Cook reduction
cytoreduction
decimal reduction time
deuteroreduction
eidetic reduction
electroreduction
eta reduction
harm reduction
hazard reduction burn
hydroreduction
irreduction
Karp reduction
ketoreduction
leucoreduction
leukoreduction
magnesiothermic reduction
mapping reduction
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
monoreduction
nitroreduction
noise reduction
nonreduction
orchestrated objective reduction
organic reduction
overreduction
oxidation-reduction
oxidoreduction
phenomenological reduction
photoreduction
polynomial reduction
polynomial-time reduction
postreduction
prereduction
prolongational reduction
pseudoreduction
reductional
reduction division
reduction drive
reduction furnace
reduction in force
reductionism
reductionist
reduction set
reduction to the absurd
rereduction
semireduction
seroreduction
spot reduction
tax reduction
time-span reduction
transduction
Turing reduction
vowel reduction
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