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
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reducing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | reduction |
| Type of | chemical reaction, reaction |
| Derivation | reduce |
reducing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | loss |
| Derivation | reduce |
a doctor supervised her reducing.
Examples of reducing
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Overall 9% more of them expect to be adding staff than expect to be reducing it.
From the forbes.com
The City Council also tentatively approved reducing voting sites from 21 to six.
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In return, the borrower gets higher credit ratings, reducing its interest costs.
From the bloomberg.com
Many continue to grumble that the new law has no master plan for reducing costs.
From the sacbee.com
Compared with those options, reducing enrollment begins to sound less draconian.
From the latimes.com
That's why Walsh is fixated on reducing costs at Europe's third-largest airline.
From the businessweek.com
The toughest decision I had to make was reducing the workforce by 35,000 people.
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Home prices continue to fall, reducing the values of mortgage-backed securities.
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Reducing staff and limiting business operations would also help teams cut costs.
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- Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- Make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
- Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
- Be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
- 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.
- REDUCE is a general-purpose computer algebra system geared towards applications in physics.
