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In spoken languages, reduction is a way to pronounce a certain word more quickly than usual. For example, in English language

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Topics: Reduction (linguistics), Reductionism, Reduction (philosophy)...

ReductionReduction or reducing has several meanings: In mathematics, reduction is the process of manipulating a series of equations or matrices into a desired 'simpler' format. In computational complexity theory, reduction is the transformation of an instance of oReductionismReductionism in philosophy describes a number of related, contentious theories that hold, very roughly, that the nature of complex things can always be reduced to (explained by) simpler or more fundamental things. This is said of objects, phenomena, explaReduction (philosophy)Reduction is the process by which one object, property, concept, theory, etc. is shown to be entirely dispensable in favor of another. For example, we say that chemical properties such as the boiling point of a substance are reducible to that substance’s
Reduction (linguistics)In spoken languages, reduction is a way to pronounce a certain word more quickly than usual. For example, in English language getcha (get you) betcha (bet you) don't cha (don't you) gotcha (got you) gotta (got to) hafta (have to) hasta (has to) wanna (wanReductionsReductions were colonies settled by the Jesuits in the Tupi-Guarani areas of Brazil and Spanish America in order to civilise and cathequise the Indians. They came to be considered as virtually independent states; this, combined with their resistance to enReduction (complexity)In computational complexity theory, a reduction is a class of techniques used to solve a problem using the solution of another problem. Roughly speaking, if a problem A reduces to a problem B, this means A is no harder than B, and B is no easier A. We wri
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