reductive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈdʌktɪv/
reductive
- (Scottish legal, now rare) Pertaining to the reduction of a decree etc.; rescissory. [from 16th c.]
- Causing the physical reduction or diminution of something. [from 17th c.]
- (chemistry, metallurgy, biology) That reduces a substance etc. to a more simple or basic form. [from 17th c.]
- 1848, F Knapp, Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures:
- On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.
- 1848, F Knapp, Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures:
- (now rare, historical) That can be derived from, or referred back to, something else. [from 17th c.]
- 1847, John Johnson, The theological works of the rev. John Johnson:
- But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.
- 1847, John Johnson, The theological works of the rev. John Johnson:
- (now frequently pejorative) That reduces an argument, issue etc. to its most basic terms; simplistic, reductionist. [from 20th c.]
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