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reduction
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In cooking, reduction is the process of thickening and intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture such as a soup , sauce , wine , or juice by simmering or boiling . Reduction is performed by simmering or boiling a liquid such as stock , fruit or vegetable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a restoring to a former state; a subjugation" (of a people, etc.), from Middle French reducion (13c., Modern French réduction ) and directly from Latin reductionem (nominative reductio ) "a leading back, restoration," noun of action from past ...
Usage examples of reduction.
Jose Barreda, the Father Provincial of the missions, in a curious letter under date of August 2nd, 1753, tells the Marquis of Valdelirios that he fears not only that the 30,000 Indians resident in the seven towns may rebel, but that they may be joined by the Indians of the other reductions, and that it is possible they may all apostatize and return to the woods.
But the bankrupt had signed the illicit notes with the name of his insolvent firm, and he was therefore able to bring them under the reduction of sixty-five per cent.
Ottolini, the Podesta of Bergamo, an instrument of tyranny in the hands of the State inquisitors, then harassed the people of Bergamo and Brescia, who, after the reduction of Mantua, wished to be separated from Venice.
Taking into account all sets of pitch values related in this way, and even after reduction by means of splitting pitch into absolute and modulo octaves components, such an implementation would require a large number of connections.
It is thought that a reduction in release of methyl sulphide by phytoplankton is the cause of a serious drought along the Pacific seaboard of the American continent, and Maury is trying to collate falls in phytoplankton productivity across the Pacific with low-resolution pictures from European, Australian and Russian weather satellites and reports from cargo ships of sightings of strange dark patches in the Pacific Ocean.
Since the Nation faces a very probable earthquake in California sometime during the next 30 years, FEMA should provide the necessary leadership, management, and coordination required to strengthen planning and preparedness within the Federal Government, as delegated under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program of 1977 and the Disaster Relief Act of 1974.
Additional resources should be provided as necessary to accelerate the earthquake hazard mitigation and preparedness activities under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.
Merry Duner was intended to suffer a reduction of her emotional attachment to Quant and a heightening of her sympathy towards Ohe.
The income taxes as a percentage of their income of all income groups was reduced, with each of the four lowest quintile groups experiencing greater percentage reductions than those income groups above them.
Marie and I have both memorized portions of a small program that, once created, will extract the virus, portions of the data, and a portion of each of the programs, and recompile it into the Infinite Reductions algorithm.
Every revolt of this kind has been a murder of Literature as signification: all have postulated the reduction of literary discourse to a simple semiological system, or even, in the case of poetry, to a pre-semiological system.
So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.
She came to rest on seven-eights weight reduction, and even before the gangplanks were run out, the Kragans were dropping to the flat roof, running to stairhead penthouses and tossing grenades into them.
And the distances, interplanetary, which once had cost lives and the wealth of The World, which were fearful chasms for the primitive drivers, were but winged thoughts for a mote flying at wind velocity, even beating sunward as the computer lowered mass reduction to use the gravity of the sun itself to hasten the fall toward the burning light.
Undoubtedly, but above all a desire to counter any possibility of reduction in the knowledge of the novel to a mere adaptation, or even to a televisual or cinematographic ersatz filled with non-essential elements.