It cannot be the case that the reduction of American forces is a strategy for reaching the goal of defeating al Qaeda.
Even with a 15 percent reduction in time for good behavior, such a sentence would allow Madoff to get out of jail at 106.
EnerNOC proudly keeps a running ticker of carbon emissions saved through its reduction and efficiency work with customers.
But the reduction of books and their contents to mere “information” helps illustrate the risk of the method.
But there is nothing—zero, zilch, nada—in the Ryan plan that demonstrates how that reduction would come to pass.
There will be no surplus for the reduction of debt, or to meet new demands.
The first operation to be taken up is the reduction of prints which are too dark.
I cannot make this reduction as large as I should have done, if I had more satisfactory accounts of the intentions of Prussia.
If the tray be rocked gently the reduction will be quite uniform.
For circular tours, the companies make a reduction of 25 per cent on the regular fare.
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.
