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reduction
  1. The act, process, or result of reducing.
  2. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
  3. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
  4. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
  5. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
  6. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
  7. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
  8. (philosophy) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
  9. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “A tendency to lose balance among elderly people often results in an overall reduction in their level of physical activity.”
      “How the HSE brought about a marked reduction in the cost of medication illustrates how difficult it is to manage a public service as a business.”
      “The reduction of discomfort and alteration of symptoms are often goals in the early phase of treatment.”
reducer
  1. Something that reduces.
  2. (chemistry) A reducing agent.
  3. (hydraulics) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
  4. (photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
  5. (plumbing) A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
  6. (software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Below is the same test strip reduced in iodine reducer and toned in three different toners.”
      “We would also use high doses of polycarboxilate high-range water reducer and nonchloride accelerators.”
      “During the Middle Ages, the Romans regarded herb bennet as an effective fever reducer.”
reductionism
  1. An approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components.
  2. (philosophy) A philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena".
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This tradition, with its suspect promise of simplicity, has a tattered reputation because of its reductionism.”
      “That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.”
      “Synthesis and holism is much more scientifically subtle than analysis and reductionism.”
reductoisomerase
  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes a reaction involving both reduction and isomerization
reductase
  1. (biochemistry) An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Total tropinone reductase activity was measured photometrically by NADPH consumption with tropinone as substrate.”
      “The enzymatic mechanism of detoxification involves dehydroascorbate reductase, glutathione reductase and other enzymes.”
      “The authors also thank their colleague for sending them the coordinates of mercuric ion reductase.”
reductiveness
  1. The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components
  2. Examples:
    1. “Aghion, moreover, covers all the relevant topics in sufficient depth to escape any suspicion of reductiveness, at least as far as I am concerned.”
      “To be fair, Simpson ends by offering suggestions to avoid reductiveness of this sort.”
      “The reductiveness is not didactic, as it is with John Cage when he induces us to look at nuances that are usually overlooked.”
reductivist
  1. One who follows the methods of reductivism; a minimalist.
reductivity
  1. (mathematics) The condition of being reductive
reducibility
  1. The property of being reducible.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This reading is bolstered by Alexander's discussion of the reducibility of chemistry to physics, on which he is neutral.”
      “Further work by G D Birkhoff introduced the concept of reducibility on which most later work rested.”
      “These he removed with his reinterpretation that removed the axiom of reducibility.”
reducibleness
  1. The quality of being reducible.
reductibility
  1. The quality of being reducible.
reduct
  1. (chemistry) A reducing agent.
reducement
  1. (archaic) reduction
reductionist
  1. An advocate of reductionism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The reductionist sought to explain complex social phenomena solely through the lens of economic factors.”
reductoisomerases
  1. plural of reductoisomerase
reductibilities
  1. plural of reductibility
reductivenesses
  1. plural of reductiveness
reductionisms
reductionists
reducibilities
  1. plural of reducibility
reductivists
  1. plural of reductivist
reducements
  1. plural of reducement
reductases
  1. plural of reductase
  2. Examples:
    1. “Besides this constitutive system, iron reductases have been described in dicotyledons and non-grass monocotyledons that reduce iron prior to uptake.”
      “Other experiments will utilize aldo-keto reductases that utilize NADPH as a cofactor.”
      “Relative abundances of proteobacterial membrane-bound and periplasmic nitrate reductases in selected environments.”
reductions
  1. plural of reduction
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Managers hope to make the reductions through natural wastage, retraining and redeployment.”
      “Similar reductions are made on larger loads which are weighed and priced accordingly.”
      “The money I put in on departure was to balance the books, but reductions in certain areas will be needed.”
reductives
  1. plural of reductive
reducers
  1. plural of reducer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most effective combinations include at least two antibiotics plus the acid reducers.”
      “The role of fermentative microbes is mainly in the partial breakdown of organic molecules that then serve as nutrients for the sulfate reducers and the methanogens.”
      “Campaigns such as Meatless Mondays have encouraged so-called meat reducers, or flexitarians.”
reducts
  1. plural of reduct
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