Advertisement
Advertisement
reducible
[ri-doo-suh-buhl, -dyoo-]
adjective
capable of being reduced.
Mathematics.Ģż
of or relating to a polynomial that can be factored into the product of polynomials, each of lower degree.
of or relating to a group that can be written as the direct product of two of its subgroups.
of or relating to a set whose set of accumulation points is countable.
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- reducibility noun
- reducibleness noun
- reducibly adverb
- nonreducibility noun
- nonreducible adjective
- nonreducibly adverb
- unreducible adjective
- unreducibly adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of reducible1
Example Sentences
I'd say first and foremost, that mushrooms are reducible to poisons, pizza toppings and party drugs.
An understanding that our most consequential actions are largely overdetermined, meaning not reducible to a single motivation.
He spoke of humans as reducible to code, arguing that the future will be less about human or civil rights than about āevolution rights.ā
He praised the way Bergmanās contemporary āHamletā wasnāt āreducible to concept or shockā but allowed the play to emerge ālike a painting scrubbed back to its original colors.ā
As Indigenous people have always known, consciousness is not reducible to mathematical calculations, it's embodied, interconnected and inseparable from the matter that is life.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse
