Like many I spoke to, Williams seemed to desire a reorientation of policing, rather than just a reduction.
Does that mean a reduction in policing would be a good thing?
Proper use could lead to weight loss and reduction in gastric reflux.
The reduction in the unemployment levels is largely due to part time jobs and more people simply giving up looking for jobs.
First, the reduction of war to a football statistic; but second and more meaningfully, because we all knew what that “1” was.
Gotleib contended that Arledge could sustain the reduction required.
As a rule, however, the associations will not hear of even such a reduction.
The reduction in rent in this case was at least a third of the total.
His debts of 1000 had been paid, and his allowance of 300 threatened with the reduction of a third.
This chute, Fuller had said, led to the outside at the back of the reduction plant.
early 15c., "a restoring to a former state; a subjugation" (of a people, etc.), from Middle French reducion (13c., Modern French réduction) and directly from Latin reductionem (nominative reductio) "a leading back, restoration," noun of action from past participle stem of reducere (see reduce). Meaning "diminution, a lessening" is from 1670s; chemical sense of "reversion to a simpler form" is from 1660s.
reduction re·duc·tion (rĭ-dŭk'shən)
n.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The amount by which something is lessened or diminished.
Restoration of an injured or dislocated part to its normal anatomical relation by surgery or manipulation. Also called repositioning.
The first meiotic division, in which the chromosome number is reduced. Also called reduction division, reduction of chromosomes.
A decrease in positive valence or an increase in negative valence by the gaining of electrons.
A reaction in which hydrogen is combined with a compound.
A reaction in which oxygen is removed from a compound.
reduction
Our Living Language : Beginning students of chemistry are understandably puzzled by the term reduction: shouldn't a reduced atom or ion be one that loses electrons rather than gains them? The reason for the apparent contradiction comes from the early days of chemistry, where reduction and its counterpart, oxidation, were terms invented to describe reactions in which one substance lost an oxygen atom and the other substance gained it. In a reaction such as that between two molecules of hydrogen (2H2) and one of oxygen (O2) combining to produce two molecules of water (2H2O), the hydrogen atoms have gained oxygen atoms and were said to have become "oxidized," while the oxygen atoms have (as it were) lost them by attaching themselves to the hydrogens, and were said to have become "reduced." Importantly, though, in the process of gaining an oxygen atom, the hydrogen atoms have had to give up their electrons and share them with the oxygen atoms, while the oxygen atoms have gained electrons. Thus comes the apparent paradox that the "reduced" oxygen has in fact gained something, namely electrons. Today the terms oxidation and reduction are used of any reaction, not just one involving oxygen, where electrons are (respectively) lost or gained. |
Any chemical reaction in which the atoms in a material take on electrons.
Note: Reduction is the opposite of oxidation.
