reductions
Meaning of reductions
- the action or fact of making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
talks on arms reduction
there had been a reduction in the number of casualties
- a thing that is made smaller or less in size or amount.
- the action of remedying a dislocation or fracture by returning the affected part of the body to its normal position.
we must see if the fracture requires reduction
- the process or result of reducing or being reduced.
the reaction is limited to reduction to the hydrocarbon
- substitution of a sound which requires less muscular effort to articulate.
the process of vowel reduction
late Middle English (denoting the action of bringing back): from Old French, or from Latin reductio(n- ), from reducere ‘bring back, restore’ (see reduce). The sense development was broadly similar to that of reduce; sense 1 dates from the late 17th century.
Information about reductions
- It is a name.
- The singular form of reductions is: reduction.
- Languages in which reductions is used:
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Hyphenation of reductions
re-duc-tions
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- reductions is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
reductions synonyms
Meaning reduction in the number or quantity of something:
Meaning a reduction in amount or size:
Meaning the action of cutting something:
Meaning an act or instance of reducing something, especially expenditure:
Meaning small pieces trimmed off something:
Meaning trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to encourage growth:
Meaning non-standard form of ask:
Meaning cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:
Meaning the action or fact of reducing or restricting something:
Meaning setting or serving as a limit to something:
Meaning make (something unpleasant or intense) less serious or severe:
Meaning a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis:
Meaning the action of making something less extreme, intense, or violent:
Meaning the action of making a liquid more dilute:
Meaning the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something:
Meaning travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis:
Meaning a statement or assertion that makes another less absolute:
Meaning the action or process of making suffering, deficiency, or a problem less severe:
Meaning the action of making a rule or restriction less strict:
Meaning the action of abating or being abated; ending or subsiding:
Meaning reduction in rank or status:
Meaning reduce to a lower grade, rank, or level of importance:
Meaning the action of moving someone or something in a downward direction:
Meaning the action or fact of abasing or being abased; humiliation or degradation:
Meaning cause (someone) to feel less important or proud:
Meaning causing someone to lose their dignity and the respect of others:
Meaning dismissive of the importance of a person or thing:
Meaning the action of humiliating someone or the state of being humiliated:
reductions antonyms
Meaning activity that supports or encourages a cause, venture, or aim:
Anagrams of reductions
discounter, introduces, rediscount
Words that rhyme with reductions
ions, eccaleobions, excambions, gabions, symbions, Halcions, cions, coercions, epinicions, scions, suspicions, unsuspicions, accordions, collodions, diacodions, encheiridions, enchiridions, gammadions, melodions, pyramidions, rhipidions, stasidions, tordions, turdions, Legions, analogions, bioregions, contagions, euchologions, irreligions, legions, logions, regions, religions, subregions, tragions, trisagions, Malathions, antifashions, apocynthions, cushions, ethions, falchions, fashions, fauchions, faulchions, fenthions, fushions, gnathions, gumphions