Reducible
adjective
Something that can be made smaller or simpler.
The mathematical equation is reducible, allowing it to be solved more easily.
Often appears as...
- reducible equation
- reducible complexity
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Technical
adjective
Something capable of being broken down into components or simpler forms.
The complex task was reducible to a series of smaller steps.
Often appears as...
- reducible task
- reducible structure
adjective
In mathematics, a polynomial is reducible if it can be expressed as a product of polynomials of lower degree.
The polynomial p(x) is reducible over Q, since it can be written as a product of two lower degree polynomials.
Often appears as...
- reducible polynomial
- reducible over q
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Academic
adjective
Something that can be made smaller or simpler.
The mathematical equation is reducible, allowing it to be solved more easily.
Often appears as...
- reducible equation
- reducible complexity
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Something capable of being broken down into components or simpler forms.
The complex task was reducible to a series of smaller steps.
Often appears as...
- reducible task
- reducible structure
adjective
In mathematics, a polynomial is reducible if it can be expressed as a product of polynomials of lower degree.
The polynomial p(x) is reducible over Q, since it can be written as a product of two lower degree polynomials.
Often appears as...
- reducible polynomial
- reducible over q
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Size Reduction
Use 'reducible' to describe things that can become smaller in quantity or complexity.
The document was too long, but thankfully, it was reducible.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concepts
'Reducible' is not only for physical objects, but also abstract ideas like arguments.
Her lengthy argument is reducible to a simple statement.
Pro Tip 3/3Ease of Resolution
When a complex matter is 'reducible', it often implies it can be solved more easily.
They found the reducible conflict easier to resolve.
Pro Tip 1/3Size Reduction
Use 'reducible' to describe things that can become smaller in quantity or complexity.
The document was too long, but thankfully, it was reducible.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concepts
'Reducible' is not only for physical objects, but also abstract ideas like arguments.
Her lengthy argument is reducible to a simple statement.
Pro Tip 3/3Ease of Resolution
When a complex matter is 'reducible', it often implies it can be solved more easily.
They found the reducible conflict easier to resolve.
Pro Tip 1/3Size Reduction
Use 'reducible' to describe things that can become smaller in quantity or complexity.
The document was too long, but thankfully, it was reducible.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concepts
'Reducible' is not only for physical objects, but also abstract ideas like arguments.
Her lengthy argument is reducible to a simple statement.
Pro Tip 3/3Ease of Resolution
When a complex matter is 'reducible', it often implies it can be solved more easily.
They found the reducible conflict easier to resolve.
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Science can answer moral...
about the inner lives of insects okay there is no notion no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible to a concern about conscious
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Science can answer moral...
well then we could be wrong about the inner lives of insects. And there's no notion, no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible
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Science can answer moral...
about the inner lives of insects okay there is no notion no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible to a concern about conscious
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Science can answer moral...
well then we could be wrong about the inner lives of insects. And there's no notion, no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible
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Tyler Cowen
American Economist
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.
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Wilhelm Dilthey
German Historian
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
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Francis Collins
American Scientist
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
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Edward Norton
American Actor
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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Frederick Pollock
English Judge
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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Rachel Kushner
American Writer
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Stephen Hough
British Composer
Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.
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Tyler Cowen
American Economist
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.
Quote examples
Wilhelm Dilthey
German Historian
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
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Francis Collins
American Scientist
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
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Edward Norton
American Actor
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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Frederick Pollock
English Judge
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
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Rachel Kushner
American Writer
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Stephen Hough
British Composer
Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.
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