reduction
noun
[ rɪˈdʌkʃ(ə)n ]
• the action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
• "talks on arms reduction"
Similar:
depletion,
cut,
cutting,
cutback,
scaling down,
trimming,
slimming (down),
pruning,
axing,
chopping,
curtailment,
limiting,
easing,
lightening,
moderation,
dilution,
mitigation,
commuting,
qualification,
alleviation,
relaxation,
abatement,
demotion,
downgrading,
lowering,
abasement,
humbling,
demeaning,
belittling,
humiliation,
bringing low,
• a thing that is made smaller or less in size or amount.
• the action of remedying a dislocation or fracture by returning the affected part of the body to its normal position.
• "we must see if the fracture requires reduction"
• the process or result of reducing or being reduced.
• "the reaction is limited to reduction to the hydrocarbon"
• substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate.
• "the process of vowel reduction"
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the action of bringing back): from Old French, or from Latin reductio(n- ), from reducere ‘bring back, restore’ (see reduce). The sense development was broadly similar to that of reduce; sense 1 dates from the late 17th century.
