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reducibility

reducibility

7.4
How you can change a problem or process into an easier form
  • noun
  • /rɪˈdjuːsəˌbɪlɪti/
translation icon : simplificabilidad
  • In computer science, reducibility helps researchers simplify algorithms to improve efficiency.

You could show you can't prove that's always going to be true computation and reducibility, but it's going to be more true than not.

Examples

  • In denying that a living cell is a mere collage of chemical compounds, and in questioning the reducibility of life to the laws of physics and chemistry, I am faced with the question: Are all relevant laws already known?

    Academic text (1997)

  • Mathematicians often study the reducibility of complex problems to make them easier to solve.

  • We'll have to make sure we understand why this fits with our concept of a reducibility, but we'll do that.

  • You could show you can't prove that's always going to be true computation and reducibility, but it's going to be more true than not.

    Lex Fridman

  • The concept of reducibility allows us to transform difficult equations into simpler forms for analysis.

Synonyms

decomposability
vsreducibility
8.2

How easily something breaks into smaller parts

is about being transformed into a simpler whole rather than split into parts

Antonyms

complexity
166 5.0

Many connected parts make something hard to understand

How Reducible

reducibility
7.4
irreducibility
  • Specialized
1 9.7

Surface Forms

reducibility singular
reducibilities plural

Morphology

reducibility = reducible (transparent) = reduce + ible + ity

Standard derivational sequence (reduce → reducible → reducibility) and the mathematical sense matches the ordinary meaning 'able to be reduced', so learners can infer the noun from the base.

Etymology

Reducibility comes from re- 'back' and ducere 'to lead', so the word suggests 'being led back' or made smaller. In maths and computer science, this idea became how easily a problem or process can be changed into a simpler form, which is why reducibility means the quality of being able to be simplified.