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The act of reducing complexity
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simplification
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simplification \Sim`pli*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. simplification.] The act of simplifying. --A. Smith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from Middle French simplification "act or process of simplifying," from simplifier (see simplify ).
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Simplification or Simplified may refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity elimination of superfluous details the act of reducing complexity [syn: reduction ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of simplifying or something that has been simplified 2 (context logic English) a valid simple argument
Usage examples of simplification.
The art magazine told me that when abstract expressionism reflected utter disenchantment with the dream it still reverted to rhetorical simplifications even in its impiety, and that it is not a unified stylistic entity because of its advocacy of alien ideas on the basis of a homiletic approach to experience.
This is in itself an undesirable simplification, for it is impossible to reconstitute the infinity of real shades by combinations of fundamental colours each representing the homogeneous shore, which each region of the spectrum finally becomes.
In time the Greeks carried the work of simplification still farther, and eliminated the top lines, as we have supposed the Atlanteans to have eliminated the double strokes, and they left the letter as it has come down to us, H.
In the first five chapters there are numerous emendations, very few of which, however, affect the meaning to any appreciable extent, being mainly concerned with the excision of redundancies and the simplification of style.
The perspectives chosen for this narrative made necessary some rearrangements of detail, together with certain simplifications or modifications intended to eliminate repetitions, lagging, or confusion which only didactic explanation would have dispelled.
And we find that these are themselves simplifications of older forms of a still more complex character.
Again, a second simplification, still more undesirable, succeeds the first.
Nevertheless, as long as one understands that the table is a simplification, it is useful for comparing continental histories.
In his categorical affirmative of the essential character of things, in his often rash simplification of form, in his insolent desire to look at the sun face to face, in the passion of his drawing and colour, there lies revealed a powerful one, a male, a darer who is sometimes brutal, sometimes ingenuously delicate.
If Fallout Shelter's Sealed Environment contained a Fallout, the demon had obviously not opened Inner Hatch since the time of the Flame Deluge, before the Simplification.
If Fallout Shelters Sealed Environment contained a Fallout, the demon had obviously not opened Inner Hatch since the time of the Flame Deluge, before the Simplification.
For simplification, when we are discussing armaments we now speak of these two schools of thought as the protagonists of either the New Look or the Old Look.
He also subsequently invented the D slide valve, or at least greatly improved it, while he added to the power of the air-pump, and gave a new arrangement to the other parts, with a view to the simplification of the powers of the engine.