Verb | 1. | reduce - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
2. | reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" | |
3. | reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" | |
4. | reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | |
5. | reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" | |
6. | reduce - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" | |
7. | reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" Synonyms: shrink | |
8. | reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" | |
9. | reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image" Synonyms: scale down | |
10. | reduce - to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons | |
11. | reduce - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" Synonyms: tighten | |
12. | reduce - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" | |
13. | reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" | |
14. | reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | |
15. | reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" | |
16. | reduce - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" | |
17. | reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" Synonyms: boil down, concentrate | |
18. | reduce - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" | |
19. | reduce - take off weight |
(language, mathematics) | REDUCE - A symbolic mathematics language with
ALGOL-like syntax, written in Lisp by Anthony Hearn in
1963. Reduce 2 is a version based on Portable Standard LISP. http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/REDUCE/. E-mail: Server: reduce-netlib@rand.org. ["REDUCE, Software for Algebraic Computation", G. Rayna, Springer 1987]. |