Crossword-Solution: REDUCTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Reduction | n. | 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. |
| Reduction | n. | The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol. |
| Reduction | v. t. | The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REDUCTION | anagram | INTRODUCE |
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Sentences with REDUCTION (5)
The expansion featured moderation in wage and consumer price increases and a steady reduction in unemployment to 5.2% of the labor force.
Having reached an agreement on the repayment of interest arrears accumulated during 1989 and 1990, Brazilian officials and commercial bankers are engaged in talks on the reduction of medium- and long-term debt and debt service payments and on the elimination of remaining interest arrears.
ZIDAR noted two factors that influenced the quality of the images: 1) the inherent quality of the original and 2) the amount of size reduction on the pages.
The government also obtained an IMF standby loan in January 1992 and reached agreements with commercial bankers on the repayment of interest arrears and on the reduction of debt and debt service payments.
Many of you are aware that the average personal computer was $5,000 - $10,000 some 10 - 15 years ago when Apples and IBMs first appeared on the scene, but you might not be aware of a trend beyond the price reduction that makes today's computer prices an even better bargain in comparison.
Quotes with REDUCTION (3)
So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in favour of the world was maintained. As soon as one tried by means of them, to picture consciousness in the process of perceiving, to revive the forgotten perceptual experience, and to relate them to it, they were found to be inconceivable. By dint of making these difficulties more explicit, we were drawn implicitly into a new kind …
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway... Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1965–1972).