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- English Word Reduct Definition To reduce.
- English Word Reductibility Definition The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
- English Word Reduction Definition 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.
- English Word Reduction Definition The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
- English Word Reduction Definition The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
- English Word Reduction Definition The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
- English Word Reduction Definition The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
- English Word Reduction Definition The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
- English Word Reduction Definition The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
- English Word Reduction Definition The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
- English Word Reductive Definition Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
- English Word Reductive Definition A reductive agent.
- English Word Reductively Definition By reduction; by consequence.
- English Word Reduit Definition A central or retired work within any other work.
- English Word Redundance Definition Alt. of Redundancy
- English Word Redundancy Definition The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
- English Word Redundancy Definition That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
- English Word Redundancy Definition Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- English Word Redundant Definition Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
- English Word Redundant Definition Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
- English Word Redundantly Definition In a refundant manner.
- English Word Reduplicate Definition Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
- English Word Reduplicate Definition Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.
- English Word Reduplicate Definition To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
- English Word Reduplicate Definition To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
- English Word Reduplication Definition The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
- English Word Reduplication Definition A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
- English Word Reduplication Definition The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
- English Word Reduplicative Definition Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
- English Word Reduvid Definition Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.