Reduction

Quick meaning: Reduction is a noun meaning The act, process, or result of reducing.

Meaning

The act, process, or result of reducing.

More Meanings

1. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
2. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
3. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
4. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
5. (computing theory) A transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial-time reduction.
6. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
7. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

Example Sentences

closed reduction

A 5% reduction in robberies

open reduction and internal fixation

Spanish reductions in Mexico were common during the 18th century.

Word Forms

• reductions

Synonyms for reduction

Depending on context, synonyms include decline, lessening, extract, taxis, diminution, decrease.

Antonyms for reduction

Common opposites include elevation, expansion, increase, promotion, addition, supplement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reducing, decrease, diminution, step-down, simplification, reducer.

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