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The act, process, or result of reducing. / The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

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Source Word

reduction

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɪˈdʌkʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

物事を減らす行為や過程、もしくはその結果。例として、価格の引き下げなどに見られる縮小・削減の状態を指す。 / 削減、減少、縮小

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The city's policy focused on the reduction of plastic waste through stricter recycling regulations.

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その市の政策は、より厳しいリサイクル規制によるプラスチック廃棄物の削減に重点を置いていた。

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The act, process, or result of reducing.

With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.

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The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.

A 5% reduction in robberies

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(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.

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(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.

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(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.

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(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.

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(philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)

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