Synonyms:
decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
Meaning: the act of decreasing or reducing something
Synonyms:
reduction, reducing
Meaning: 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
Synonyms:
reduction, simplification
Meaning: the act of reducing complexity
Usage examples
It is again the same author, that true genius, W. James, who has attempted this reduction.
This increase in output, of course, means a reduction in the cost of labor and of general expenses.
In the case of the Crane trial there was a reduction from 30 per cent. to 12 per cent. of the ore charge.
He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever.
As Archer had been "sickly" most of the time, during the last year, he complained that there was "no reduction" in his hire on this account.
This reduction, if admitted, would much facilitate the introduction of emotion into our system, which, being founded on the distinction between the consciousness and the object, is likewise an intellectualist system.
These were, in short: "peace without victory"; the right of nationalities to freedom and self-government; the independence of Poland; freedom of the seas; the reduction of armaments; and the abolition of entangling alliances.
To the eyes of the economist, the revolutions of empires seem now like the reduction of algebraical quantities, which are inter-deducible; now like the discovery of unknown quantities, induced by the inevitable influence of time.
The screening process allowed the finest part of the crushed rock to pass on, by conveyor belts, to the magnetic separators, while the coarser particles were in like manner automatically returned to the rolls for further reduction.
The whole crushing operation of reduction from massive boulders to small pebbly pieces having been done in less time than the telling has occupied, the product was conveyed to the "Dryer," a tower nine feet square and fifty feet high, heated from below by great open furnace fires.