reduction

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

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