Reduction
//ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən//
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The word "reduction" can be used as a noun.
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Birch reduction Clemmensen reduction Cook reduction Karp reduction Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction Turing reduction amnioreduction autoreduction beta reduction bioreduction boob reduction breast reduction carboreduction carbothermal reduction chemoreduction cytoreduction decimal reduction time deuteroreduction eidetic reduction electroreduction eta reduction harm reduction hazard reduction burn hydroreduction irreduction ketoreduction leucoreduction leukoreduction magnesiothermic reduction mapping reduction monoreduction nitroreduction noise reduction nonreduction orchestrated objective reduction organic reduction overreduction oxidation-reduction oxidoreduction phenomenological reduction photoreduction polynomial reduction polynomial-time reduction postreduction prereduction prolongational reduction pseudoreduction reduction division reduction drive reduction furnace reduction in force reduction set reduction to the absurd reductional reductionism reductionist rereduction semireduction seroreduction spot reduction tax reduction time-span reduction transduction vowel reduction
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addition alignment amount boiling concentrate consciousness cut dislocation electron expression fracture gain hydrogen making making smaller mapping reduction medical minus minus pro oxygen phenomena phenomenological reduction philosophical polynomial reduction price price cut pro procedure pure rapidly rate reaction reduced reducing removal sauce smaller transformation valence
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