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Redex vs Redux - What's the difference?

redex | redux |

As a noun redex

is (mathematics) something to be reduced according to the rules of a formal system.

As an adjective redux is

(of a topic) redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.

redex

English

Noun

(es)
  • (mathematics) Something to be reduced according to the rules of a formal system.

    • See also

    * lambda calculus

    redux

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
    • Company policy redux .
    Dirty tricks redux .
  • * 2004 , Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process , page 265:
    • 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.

    Usage notes

    is always used attributively and after the noun rather than before it.

    See also

    * redo * rediscuss

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    Anagrams

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