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reducible
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reducible \Re*du"ci*ble\ (-s?*b'll), a. Capable of being reduced.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c.; see reduce + -ible. Compare Old French redusible.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being reduced. 2 (context mathematics of a polynomial English) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as . 3 (context mathematics of an integer English) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite. 4 (context topology of a manifold English) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
WordNet
adj. capable of being reduced; "reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson [ant: irreducible]
Usage examples of "reducible".
Slags containing sulphides are especially apt to retain the more easily reducible metals.
The product of the assay is examined, and a deduction of a considerable percentage is very properly made for impurities, since the assay really determines the percentage, not merely of tin, but of the bodies present which are reducible at a white heat.
As for the remaining so-called genera, we have shown that they are reducible to those which we have posited.
But aside from so-called quasi-possession--- those cases that are ultimately reducible to fraud, paranoia and hysteria--- the problem has always lain with interpreting the phenomena, the oldest interpretation being the spiritist, an impression that is likely to be strengthened by the fact that the intruding personality may have accomplishments quite foreign to the first.
Consequently, just as the virtue which is in the sacraments is not of itself in a genus, but is reducible to a genus, for the reason that it is of a transitory and incomplete nature: so also a character is not properly in a genus or species, but is reducible to the second species of quality.
We see in animals, and to a lesser extent in plants, behaviour more or less similar to that which, in us, is prompted by desires and beliefs, and we find that, as we descend in the scale of evolution, behaviour becomes simpler, more easily reducible to rule, more scientifically analysable and predictable.
It will dilate itself about the brain (where there, is any) in fourteen minutes, and you immediately perceive in your head an infinite number of abstracts, summaries, compendiums, extracts, collections, medulas, excerpta quaedams, florilegias and the like, all disposed into great order, and reducible upon paper.
Dr Evenston eventually returned and said noncommittally that there was indeed a right inguinal hernia, reducible but needing immediate surgery, since there was always the possibility of strangulation.
That real tennis was no more reducible to delimited factors or probability curves than chess or boxing, the two games of which it's a hybrid.