Irreducibility

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or degree of being irreducible. uncountable

    "I gave them account of what I had seen of the case, of my opinion concerning the irreducibility of the rupture, and that it had no share in the present complaint; at the same time desiring my colleague to examine for himself."

  2. 2
    Something that is irreducible. countable

    "There is plebs in bodies, in souls, in individuals, in the proletariat, in the bourgeoisie, but everywhere in a diversity of forms and extensions, of energies and irreducibilities."

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combinationfusionidentityindividualityintegrationintegrity

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"I gave them account of what I had seen of the case, of my opinion concerning the irreducibility of the rupture, and that it had no share in the present complaint; at the same time desiring my colleague to examine for himself."

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Abel's irreducibility theorem

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