reduction

Word Type

n.

reduction Meaning 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.

Synonyms for reduction

abasement,abatement,abbreviation,about-face,abridgment,abstract,acetification,acidification,acidulation,addition,agio,alchemy,alkalization,allayment,alleviation,allowance,analgesia,anesthesia,anesthetizing,apocope,appeasement,approximation,assimilation,assuagement,assumption,astriction,astringency,attenuation,attrition,bank discount,becoming,blunting,bottleneck,break,breakage,breaking,bump,bust,calming,carbonation,cash discount,casting down,catalysis,cervix,chain discount,change,change-over,charge-off,cheapening,chemicalization,circumscription,coarctation,compactedness,compaction,compression,compressure,concavity,concentration,concession,condensation,conquering,consolidation,conspectus,constriction,constringency,contraction,contracture,conversion,crushing,curtailment,cut,cutting,dampening,damping,de-escalation,deadening,debasement,debilitation,decline,decrease,decrement,decrescence,deduction,deflation,degradation,degrading,demotion,demulsion,depletion,depluming,depreciation,depression,derogation,descent,detraction,detrusion,devaluation,devitalization,differentiation,dilution,diminishment,diminuendo,diminution,dip,discount,disgrading,disparagement,displuming,dive,division,domestication,downgrading,drawback,ducking,dulcification,dulling,dying,dying off,ease,easement,easing,effemination,electrolysis,elision,ellipsis,enervation,enfeeblement,epitome,equation,evisceration,evolution,exhaustion,extenuation,extraction,extrapolation,fade-out,falling-off,fatigue,ferment,fermentation,flip-flop,foreshortening,growth,hauling down,hollowness,hourglass,hourglass figure,humbling,humiliation,hushing,hydrogenation,impairment,inanition,integration,interpolation,inversion,involution,isomerism,isthmus,kickback,knitting,languishment,lapse,leniency,lessening,letdown,letup,lightening,loosening,lowering,lulling,markdown,metamerism,metamerization,miniaturization,mitigation,modulation,mollification,multiplication,narrow place,narrowing,naturalization,neck,nitration,nose dive,notation,numbing,oxidation,oxidization,pacification,palliation,passage,penalty,penalty clause,percentage,phosphatization,plummet,plummeting,plunge,polymerism,polymerization,position isomerism,practice,precis,premium,price cut,price fall,price reduction,price-cut,progress,proportion,puckering,pursing,quelling,quietening,quieting,re-formation,rebate,rebatement,recap,recapitulation,reconversion,refund,relaxation,relief,remedy,remission,resolution,retraction,retrenchment,reversal,rollback,sag,sagging,salvage,salving,saturization,scaling down,setoff,shift,shortening,shrinkage,simplicity,sinking,slackening,slash,slump,softening,solidification,soothing,stranglement,strangulation,striction,stricture,stripping of rank,subdual,subduement,submergence,subtraction,summary,summation,suppression,switch,switch-over,syncope,synopsis,systole,taming,tare,telescoping,tempering,thinning,thrusting under,time discount,trade discount,tranquilization,transformation,transit,transition,treading down,tret,truncation,turning into,underselling,volte-face,wasp waist,weakening,working,wrinkling,write-off

Synonym Search Links for reduction

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