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noun

Reduction n.

1.

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

2.

(Arith. & Alg.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.

3.

(Astron.)

(a)

The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.

(b)

The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

4.

The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.

5.

(Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

6.

(Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of reducing (7); as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of an aldehyde into an alcohol.

7.

(Med.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

Reduction ascending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars.

Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.

Synonyms: Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.

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"Reduction" Quotes from Famous Books

... in that iron cave. The fire had died out in the stove, but the room was full of that tepid warmth which produces the dull heavy-headedness and nauseous queasiness of a morning after an orgy. The stove is a mesmerist that plays no small part in the reduction of bank clerks and porters to a ...

— Melmoth Reconciled • Honore de Balzac

... capital out of the trade the community will let the trade go to ruin without compunction rather than give more for the article than it can afford. Some of the colliers in England, we are informed, have called upon the masters to reduce the price of coal, offering at the same time to consent to a reduction of their own wages. A great fact has dawned upon their minds. Note too that democratic communities have more power of resistance to unionist extortion than others, because they are more united, have a keener sense of mutual interest, and are free from political fear. The way in which ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... is received, he also, upon a reduction - yet is he welcome, yet can he command the fatted calf; but an artist, had he the manners of an Almaviva, were he dressed like Solomon in all his glory, is received like a dog and served like a timid ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and Second Readings.*—The steps through which a public bill, whether introduced by the Government or by a private member, must pass in the Commons are still numerous, but by the reduction of some of them to sheer formalities which involve neither debate nor vote the actual legislative process has been made much more expeditious than once it was. The necessary stages in the enactment of a bill in either house are, as ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... that the diminished cost of transport by railroad invariably augments the amount of commerce transacted, and in a much larger ratio than the reduction of cost. It is estimated by Dr. Lardner that three hundred thousand horses, working daily in stages, would be required to perform the passenger-traffic alone which took place in ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various

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