Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 14 compound words that contain reductions. The most common are listed below. Open reductions in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- reductions in forceplural of reduction in force: A layoff.
- beta reductionsplural of beta reduction: The act of beta reducing, an instance of replacing a function call by the result of calling a function.
- boob reductionsplural of boob reduction: The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.
- breast reductionsplural of breast reduction: The operation performed to reduce the volume of breast tissue.
- Cook reductionsplural of Cook reduction: A Turing reduction that runs in polynomial time.
- mapping reductionsplural of mapping reduction: An algorithm that transforms an instance of one decision problem into another decision problem.
- organic reductionsplural of organic reduction: Synonym of terramation (“a process for the final disposition of human remains”)
- spot reductionsplural of spot reduction: The hypothetical reduction of fat from a specific region of the body.
- tax reductionsplural of tax reduction: The reduction of one or more tax rates.
- eta reductionsplural of eta reduction: Eta conversion.
- polynomial reductionsplural of polynomial reduction: A method for solving one problem while using another.
- vowel reductionsplural of vowel reduction: Any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels, related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word, and which are perceived as "weakening".
- Turing reductionsplural of Turing reduction: A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if it had available to it a subroutine for solving B.
- polynomial-time reductionsplural of polynomial-time reduction: A method for solving one problem while using another.
- phenomenological reductionsplural of phenomenological reduction: 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 …
- Karp reductionsplural of Karp reduction: 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.
- Clemmensen reductionsplural of Clemmensen reduction: An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.
- eidetic reductionsplural of eidetic reduction: A technique that helps to identify the essential components of a phenomenon by attempting to reduce it into its necessary essences.
- carbothermal reductionsplural of carbothermal reduction: Any reduction reaction that employs carbon at high temperatures
- Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reductionsplural of Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction: The reduction of ketones and aldehydes to their corresponding alcohols, using aluminium alkoxide catalysis in the presence of a sacrificial alcohol.
- prolongational reductionsplural of prolongational reduction: The pattern, as perceived, of tension and relaxation among events in various levels of structure, projected from time-span reduction.
Compound words 14
- bioreductionsplural of bioreduction: biological / biochemical reduction
- chemoreductionsplural of chemoreduction: chemotherapy used to reduce the size of a tumour before radiation treatment or surgery
- cytoreductionsplural of cytoreduction: The surgical removal of part of a malignant tumour.
- electroreductionsplural of electroreduction: electrochemical reduction
- ketoreductionsplural of ketoreduction: The reduction of a ketone (typically to an alcohol)
- monoreductionsplural of monoreduction: The reduction of only one of several reducible parts of a molecule
- nitroreductionsplural of nitroreduction: A reaction in which a nitro group is reduced, and often converted into an amino group
- overreductionsplural of overreduction: Excessive reduction
- photoreductionsplural of photoreduction: The addition of an electron to a photoexcited species.
- prereductionsplural of prereduction: reduction prior to some other process or reaction