reducible
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- adjective
- /rɪˈdjuːsəbl/
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reducible
- Cellular states are reducible to the history of individual molecules.
- reducible to a single
- reducible to a simple
- entirely reducible
So they're not reducible to to that.
- So they're not reducible to to that.
- So not everything is so reducible to this quantifiable reality.
- So certain questions in science are not entirely reducible to looking at the component parts.
- It's by the assumption that reality must be reducible to the physical.
- It's never, ever reducible to one.
- I mean, I certainly feel like I am conscious in a way that is not reducible to computation.
- Surely there's there's something that you can know that is not reducible to words on paper, let's say.
- This is not reducible, just sweet, sour, salty or bitter.
Examples
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The real is detectable, but it's not reducible to simple sense data.
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It's by the assumption that reality must be reducible to the physical.
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We each have many identities, not all of them reducible to a single professional label.
Academic text (1999) -
I mean, I certainly feel like I am conscious in a way that is not reducible to computation.
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In this approach, culture is not reducible to tidy and logical systems or fixed patterns.
Academic text (2010) -
An assemblage is the product of multiple determinations that are not reducible to a single logic.
Academic text (2009) -
The face of the other is not an empirical face, reducible to generalizations provided by sociology or psychology.
Academic text (1994) -
Some problems in mathematics are not reducible to simple equations or formulas.
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The project became more manageable after the complex tasks were reducible to smaller, simpler steps.
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Her extensive knowledge made the complicated topic reducible to a few basic concepts.
Antonyms
How Reducible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reducible comes from Latin parts re- meaning 'back' and ducere meaning 'to lead', the same root you see in conduct and produce. So something reducible can be 'led back' to a smaller or simpler form, which is why it means it can be made simpler or smaller.