Reduction

Noun

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

Antonyms

 * elevation
 * expansion
 * increase
 * promotion
 * : oxidation

Adjectives for Reduction
substantial; successive (pi); inexplicable; tremendous; marked; enormous; proper; radical; honest; ample; drastic; smashing; equitable; perpetual; scant.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From reduccion, from  reducion, from  reductio.

Translations

 * Czech: snížení, redukce
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 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Latvian: pamazinājums
 * Telugu: తగ్గింపు (taggimpu)


 * Finnish:
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 * Greek:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: pelkistys
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Turkish: redüklenme


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: sieventäminen,


 * German:


 * Hebrew: רדוקציה


 * Dutch: korting, reductie, vermindering
 * Spanish: reducción, disminución , rebaja

Anagrams

 * introduce