reduction

About 42.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act, process, or result of reducing.
2. noun The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

   A 5% reduction in robberies

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

Similar words

reducing decrease diminution step-down simplification reducer deduction cutback retrenchment downsizing

Often followed by

of in and is to or by was for

Word family

reductional reductions