Meaning of reduction | Babel Free

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1. The act, process, or result of reducing.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act, process, or result of reducing
3. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
   countable, uncountable
4. nopend يُمْكِن تَحْويلُه أو تَخْفيضُه съкратим reduzível / redutível redukovatelný herabsetzbar reducerbar ελαττώσιμος reducible vähendatav ساده شدنی؛ تقلیل پذیر vähennettävä réductible נִיתָן לְצִמצוּם बदलने योग्य, रूपांतरित होने योग्य koji se dade reducirati, rastavljiv csökkenthető bisa dikurangi minnkanlegur, smækkanlegur riducibile 減らせる 축소할 수 있는 galimas sumažinti samazināms; pazemināms boleh dikurangkan reduceerbaarreduserbar dający się zredukować كم كيدونكي reduzível reductibil допускае...
5. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price
6. A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
   countable, uncountable
7. The government promised a reduction in prices later; price reductions. verlaging تَخْفيض намаление redução snížení die Herabsetzung reduktion; -reduktion; nedsættelse; -nedsættelse μείωση, έκπτωσηreducción alandamine کاهش alennus réductionירידה कटौती smanjenje leszállítás, csökkentés penurunan lækkun riduzione 縮小 축소 sumažinimas, nuolaida pazeminājums; atlaide pengurangan verlagingnedskjæring, reduksjonobniżka كموونه، لږونه redução reducere снижение zníženie zmanjšanje smanjenje reducering, mi...
8. A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen
9. The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
   countable, uncountable
10. reducción, baja, disminución; rebaja.
11. The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it
12. The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
    countable, uncountable
13. The act or process of reducing.
14. The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form
15. A transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial-time reduction.
    countable, uncountable
16. The result of reducing: a reduction in absenteeism.
17. An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
    countable, uncountable
18. The amount by which something is lessened or diminished: a reduction of 12 percent in violent crime.
19. A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
    countable, uncountable
20. A sauce that has been thickened or concentrated by boiling.
21. 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).
    countable, uncountable
22. Biology The first meiotic division, in which the chromosome number is reduced from diploid to haploid. Also called reduction division.
    Biology
23. A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
    countable, uncountable
24. Chemistry a. A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.
    Chemistry
25. The ratio of a material's change in thickness compared to its thickness prior to forging and/or rolling.
    countable, uncountable
26. Mathematics a. The canceling of common factors in the numerator and denominator of a fraction.
    Mathematics
27. A religious settlement created during a mission by Spanish or Portuguese colonists with the intent of evangelizing Christianity to the local population.
    countable, historical, uncountable

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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.”

“A 5% reduction in robberies”

“closed reduction”

“open reduction and internal fixation”

“The final stage of thickness reduction (typically 90% from about 2mm to <0.2mm) is carried out by cold rolling.”

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

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