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Definition & Synonyms
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• Reduce
- (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
- (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
- (n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
- (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
- (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
- (n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
- (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
- (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
- (n.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
Synonyms:
Abbreviate, Abridge, Concentrate, Contract, Cut, Decoct, Deoxidize, Dilute, Foreshorten, Quash, Repress, Shorten, Shrink, Slim, Subdue, Subjugate, Thin, Tighten, Trim,
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• Reducer
- (n.) A reducing valve.
- (n.) A reducing motion.
- (n.) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines.
- (n.) A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck.
- (n.) A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density.
- (n.) One who, or that which, reduces.
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• Reducent
- (a.) Tending to reduce.
- (n.) A reducent agent.
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