- decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something
- 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
- the act of reducing complexity
- (reduce) cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- (reduce) make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
- (reduce) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- Redox (shorthand for reduction-oxidation reaction) reactions describe all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state) changed. ...
- In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a reduction is a transformation of one problem into another problem. Depending on the transformation used this can be used to define complexity classes on a set of problems.
- In cooking, reduction is the process of thickening or intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture such as a soup, sauce, wine, or juice by boiling. ...
- In mathematics, reduction refers to the rewriting of an expression into a simpler form. For example, the process of rewriting a fraction into one with the smallest whole-number denominator possible (while keeping the numerator an integer) is called "reducing a fraction". ...
- A piano reduction is sheet music for the piano (a piano score) that was once music for other instruments that was reduced to its most basic components within a two line staff for piano. ...
- Reduction is a medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment. When a bone fractures, the fragments lose their alignment in the form of displacement or angulation. ...
- The act, process, or result of reducing; The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price; A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen; The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it; The ...
- (reduce) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair; To lose weight; To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote; To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; To bring to an inferior state or condition; To decrease ...
- (reduced) Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction; Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price; In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated
- (Reductions) CWT employees profit from interesting reductions, such as:
- (Reductions) Reduction in (or loss of) premium or allowance due to infringement of the Scheme rules.
- (Reduce) To boil down a liquid to thicken its consistency and concentrate its flavor, as in a reduction sauce.
- (Reduce) not using or buying products in the first place so less waste, less recycling and less reusing.
- (Reduce) Process by which activities and waste can be altered to conserve resources. Reduction can also involve a decrease in water use, and is the first R in the Three R’s process.
- (reduce) act of purchasing or consuming less to begin with, so as not to have to reuse or recycle later.
- (reduce) To free up space from the database or recovery log, to allow you to delete a volume. Contrast with extend.
- (Reduce) To thicken or concentrate a sauce by boiling, which lessens the volume and intensifies the flavor.
- (Reduce) To annul or set aside by legal process.
- (reduce) to lessen in amount, to use less