irreducible
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- adjective
- /ˌɪrəˈdjuːsəbl/
- The artist captured an irreducible essence of nature in her stunning sculpture.
- irreducible representation
- irreducible element
- irreducible mystery
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Watch on YouTubeIt's part of how we grapple with the irreducible mystery.
- It's part of how we grapple with the irreducible mystery.
- And then still you are left with an is it an irreducible essence that remains?
- If they're modalities, then they're irreducible.
- And what that means is that macros, macro level entities can have real irreducible causal power in the world.
- They were both materialistic philosophies in that they they don't think that there is any sort of irreducible soul that's not material.
- So the important thing is that every science has its own irreducible concepts in which you get the best explanation.
- So the idea that the the can't carry on talking about you, Alex's mind is a sort of fundamental, irreducible thing.
- You're your smallest, most irreducible, undividable you.
- They seem to have the feature that they are, that they're sort of showing irreducible computation.
- And I really do feel that the universe gains a completely unique one of one irreducible perspective of itself through our being.
- It is timeless, it is irreducible, it is fundamental, it is formless, and it is infinite and it is you.
Examples
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Gendered personhood is—to borrow the term from Maurice Merleau-Ponty—an irreducible intertwining of the actual and the immaterial.
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I could have cried for the simple, sweet, irreducible beauty of it.
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If every single living thing is different from every other living thing, then diversity becomes life's one irreducible fact.
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In the heat of such a crisis, however, their reactions and responses would retain an irreducible element of unpredictability.
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Perhaps such extraordinary episodes of school violence represent an irreducible level of psychopathology that afflicts youngsters as well as adults.
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The irreducible complexity of the universe challenges our understanding of existence.
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In mathematics, some equations are irreducible, meaning they cannot be simplified any further.
Synonyms
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Not able to be made simpler or broken into smaller parts
Does not divide into simpler parts
Antonyms
How Reducible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Irreducible comes from the prefix ir- meaning 'not' plus the common verb reduce meaning 'make smaller', so a thing that is irreducible cannot be made smaller or simpler.