reducible
pronunciation
How to pronounce reducible in British English:
UK [rɪˈdju:səbl]
How to pronounce reducible in American English:
US [rɪˈdusəbl]
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- Adjective:
- capable of being reduced
Word Origin
- reducible (adj.)
- mid-15c.; see reduce + -ible. Compare Old French redusible.
Example
- 1. They are reducible to the sameness or homogeneity of a self-concerned individual .
- 2. Treatment of reducible and irreducible hernia .
- 3. It may be here premised that all forms of government are reducible to two general plans .
- 4. So too life , or the biosphere , is not simply contained in , reducible to , or explicable simply in terms of , the physiosphere : the realm of pure matter .
- 5. Yet information , while being manifested in physical systems , is not reducible to those physical systems . At the same time , information is not reducible to some non-material mental substance or quality .