Improvement vs Reduction - What's the difference?
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The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
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, title= The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
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The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
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Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
(chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
(cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
(mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
(computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
(music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
(philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
(medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
As nouns the difference between improvement and reduction
is that improvement is the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc while reduction is reduction.improvement
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* emprovement (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- A good improvement of his reason.
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
- There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.
Synonyms
* improvalreduction
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Noun
(en noun)- A 5% reduction in robberies