The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.

(chemistry) Any reduction reaction that uses magnesium at an elevated temperature; used, for instance, to reduce the silica of diatoms to silicon whilst retaining the complex shapes.

(chemistry) Any reduction reaction that employs carbon at high temperatures

(US, business, euphemistic) A layoff.

The reduction of one or more tax rates.

(philosophy) In the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and his followers, a philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena independently of any considerations of the existence of those objects and without the influence of inferential knowledge.

(computing theory) A polynomial-time algorithm for transforming inputs to one problem into inputs to another problem, such that the transformed problem has the same output as the original.

plural of Karp reduction

A form of furnace in which an ore is reduced to a metal

plural of boob reduction