Dictionary Definition
reduction
Noun
1 the act of decreasing or reducing something
[syn: decrease,
diminution, step-down] [ant:
increase]
2 any process in which electrons are added to an
atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always
occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent [syn:
reducing]
3 the act of reducing complexity [syn: simplification]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Noun
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- The amount or
rate by which something is
reduced, e.g. in price.
- A 5% reduction in robberies
- A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
- The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
- An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- philosophy phenomenology A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
Translations
chemistry: reaction in which electrons are
gained and valence is reduced
- Czech: redukce
- Dutch: korting, reductie, vermindering
- French: réduction
- Spanish: reducción , disminución , rebaja
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abasement, abatement, abbreviation, about-face,
abridgment, abstract, acetification, acidification, acidulation, addition, agio, alchemy, alkalization, allayment, alleviation, allowance, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, apocope, appeasement, approximation, assimilation, assuagement, assumption, astriction, astringency, attenuation, attrition, bank discount,
becoming, blunting, bottleneck, break, breakage, breaking, bump, bust, calming, carbonation, cash discount,
casting down, catalysis, cervix, chain discount, change, change-over, charge-off,
cheapening, chemicalization,
circumscription,
coarctation,
compactedness,
compaction, compression, compressure, concavity, concentration, concession, condensation, conquering, consolidation, conspectus, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, conversion, crushing, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, de-escalation, deadening, debasement, debilitation, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, degradation, degrading, demotion, demulsion, depletion, depluming, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent, detraction, detrusion, devaluation, devitalization, differentiation,
dilution, diminishment, diminuendo, diminution, dip, discount, disgrading, disparagement, displuming, dive, division, domestication, downgrading, drawback, ducking, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, effemination, electrolysis, elision, ellipsis, enervation, enfeeblement, epitome, equation, evisceration, evolution, exhaustion, extenuation, extraction, extrapolation, fade-out,
falling-off, fatigue,
ferment, fermentation, flip-flop,
foreshortening,
growth, hauling down,
hollowness, hourglass, hourglass figure,
humbling, humiliation, hushing, hydrogenation, impairment, inanition, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, isomerism, isthmus, kickback, knitting, languishment, lapse, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, markdown, metamerism, metamerization, miniaturization,
mitigation, modulation, mollification, multiplication, narrow
place, narrowing,
naturalization,
neck, nitration, nose dive, notation, numbing, oxidation, oxidization, pacification, palliation, passage, penalty, penalty clause,
percentage, phosphatization,
plummet, plummeting, plunge, polymerism, polymerization, position
isomerism, practice,
precis, premium, price cut, price fall,
price reduction, price-cut, progress, proportion, puckering, pursing, quelling, quietening, quieting, re-formation,
rebate, rebatement, recap, recapitulation, reconversion, refund, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, resolution, retraction, retrenchment, reversal, rollback, sag, sagging, salvage, salving, saturization, scaling down,
setoff, shift, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, sinking, slackening, slash, slump, softening, solidification, soothing, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, stripping of rank,
subdual, subduement, submergence, subtraction, summary, summation, suppression, switch, switch-over, syncope, synopsis, systole, taming, tare, telescoping, tempering, thinning, thrusting under, time
discount, trade discount, tranquilization,
transformation,
transit, transition, treading down,
tret, truncation, turning into,
underselling,
volte-face, wasp waist, weakening, working, wrinkling,
write-off